Anita Anand (1) (1972–)
Autor de Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
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Sobre El Autor
Anita Anand is an award-winning broadcast journalist and currently hosts BBC Radio 4's Any Answers? In addition to The Patient Assassin, she is the author of Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary and coauthor of Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond.
Obras de Anita Anand
Mahatma Gandhi 1 copia
The Koh-i-Noor Diamond 1 copia
Muhammad Ali Jinnah 1 copia
The Last Viceroy of India 1 copia
Partition 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1972
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- London, England, UK
- Educación
- King's College, London
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 15
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 593
- Popularidad
- #42,349
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 15
- ISBNs
- 54
- Idiomas
- 5
This is the story of that massacre, and of these two men. It's meticulously researched and involvingly told, and gives a vivid and unappealing picture of the British occupation of India, as well as the lives of Indians who had gone to America, and specifically England, in search of a better life.
While it attributes unverifiable words and feelings to all the main characters in this long and involved saga, the book has been exhaustively researched to present a rounded picture of the time, as it impacted on those who lived through it. It does much to explain the wider history of the period. Complicated relationships with Communist Russia and the Nazis are nor widely known about - in the UK at least.
This is a book I am glad to have read. It's an illuminating account of what is often a shameful period of British history.… (más)