Gandhi and Churchill. The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, Paperback - Arthur Herman

Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister.

"The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." --Winston S. Churchill In 1...

One year shaped the world we know today. This is the page-turning story of the pivotal changes which were forged in 1948.

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The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took sh...

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This narrative of Gandhi's life experience over the course of his thirty year 'game of chess' with the British considers Gandhi's actions and choic...

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