MouthShut Product Rating Recommended by 100% members Readability: Story: Check Recent Ratings See how this product was rated during different years Select This year Last 1 year Last 2 years Last 3 years Last 4 years Last 5 years Last 6 years Freedom at Midnight is about the transition of India from a British Colony to an independent nation on midnight of 15 August 1947. The strongest attribute of this book is the description of the characters and personalities involved. The key players are Mountbatten, Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah. If you are interested in the history of India, this book will be interesting to you.

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Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	Best history book By: nitinsuresh1976 | Nov 03, 2009 07:51 PM For all those who have forgotten the minute details of the war against independence,the transition of the partition phase,here is a book that satiates your thirst for history of that era..Lappiere has... Read complete review |  Read 22 times |  Comments (2)	Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	Freedom At Midnight – Freedom Is Never Free. By: maaz_nawaz | Sep 09, 2009 03:42 PM Freedom At Midnight – Freedom Is Never Free.Freedom at Midnight is one of my all time favorite books. A very well written book which gives an accurate account of Indian history during... Read complete review |  Read 178 times |  Comments (14)	Very Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	Tryst with Indian History By: apotri77 | Jan 22, 2009 03:07 PM the most compelling & engrossing Book i’ve ever read in my entire life.A must read for all Indian’s who wish to understand and rake up India’s History, right from its birth & Inception period.People... Read complete review |  Read 207 times |  Comments (1)	Somewhat Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	50% of history looked at through a coloured glass… By: vishalvkale01 | Mar 17, 2008 08:21 PM I start this review with my usual line… As usual, the tile of my review says it all. Yes, I am talking about the famous FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. This is a book that... Read complete review |  Read 666 times |  Comments (60)	Very Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	just for 5 schiling? By: gears | Mar 10, 2008 10:59 AM           when first i read..Freedom At Midning in the years 1991, i was very much surprised to know that just for five schiling the east india compmay formed..I have use Freedom At Midningt as database of... Read complete review |  Read 308 times |  Comments (1)	Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	Gandhiji -- a true Mahatma By: amrit_Neo | Aug 21, 2007 08:22 PM Freedom at Midnight is truly a gripping book by its authors. It raises our respect towards Gandhiji to a new greater level and justifies him being called Mahatma. The Book also describes Mountbatten,... Read complete review |  Read 761 times |  Comments (6)	Very Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	Freedom at Midnight By: Damsel86 | May 24, 2007 10:26 PM The book Freedom at Midnight is written by Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins. Though the original edition of the book was published in 1975, what we read was the new edition published in... Read complete review |  Read 998 times |  Comments (1)	Very Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	freedom at midnight By: listen_gibberish | Nov 18, 2006 03:04 PM As a kid I always thought of what would it be like traveling in the time machine. What would I do if ever I got a chance to ride and then I answered myself that I would see the freedom struggle. Now... Read complete review |  Read 751 times |  Comments (3)	Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	History of India unveiled in a real sense!! By: 123amit | Nov 09, 2006 06:35 PM Freedom At Midnight by Collins and LaPierre chronicles the end of the British Raj - the end of Empire on the subcontinent and the embodiment of the movement started long years before by Mahatma... Read complete review |  Read 669 times |  Comments (0)	Useful

Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	History of India...Behind the Scenes! By: chromosomerobin | Nov 08, 2006 04:17 AM Finally got through Freedom At Midnight last weekend which is no less than an accomplishment, on my part to be specific. At the outset I’d say it’s a magnum opus - the spelling errors aside. Although... Read complete review |  Read 715 times |  Comments (2)	Very Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	A good read By: Aditi_Sonrexa | Nov 08, 2006 01:47 AM Freedom at midnight: A review“He wore few clothes and urged his disciples, male and female, to do likewise because clothes he said, only encouraged a false sense of modesty” This makes me wonder... Read complete review |  Read 623 times |  Comments (1)	Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	stupendous book By: garimasingh | Sep 02, 2005 01:20 PM                                                         “Freedom At Midnight”, the title itself was so engaging as well as awakening that it instantly caught my attention in the bookstore.... Read complete review |  Read 1820 times |  Comments (2)	Very Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	Contentions can arise By: Nambi100 | Jan 06, 2005 02:55 PM Hi all, I am coming back after a short gap. I was travelling and reading these days. I am not a student of history nor a professional related with history, but I like reading books on Indian history.... Read complete review |  Read 940 times |  Comments (3)	Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	India Awakens By: sumanth.rao | Aug 07, 2004 09:48 AM The History : India obtained her independance from colonial rule in 1947.. A time of great turmoil for the whole world reeling from the after effects of wars. A time when the greatest empire was coming... Read complete review |  Read 1114 times |  Comments (7)	Very Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	A MUST FOR EVERY INDIAN By: ashmaitri | Nov 25, 2003 05:28 PM Although, I had heard about the book, I got hold of it only recently through a Friend and as I went through it, I literally sat in a Time Machine and went back to the year 1947. The book provides exhaustive... Read complete review |  Read 922 times |  Comments (1)	Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	Freedom and Crucifixion In India By: corbett | Aug 22, 2003 05:24 AM     Re-reading this splendid account on India’s Freedom is always a pleasure. I might have read it at least five times since it came out 28 years ago. There are many players here. It reveals the... Read complete review |  Read 4848 times |  Comments (9)	Very Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	Gandhi and non violence By: veezee | Aug 15, 2003 03:29 PM      Its a compelling insight into the life , ideals and principles of the great Mahatma. A detailed look into Gandhi’s philosophy of non violence, written in a gripping tale of freedom and the bloodshed... Read complete review |  Read 1024 times |  Comments (0)	Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	Me v/s Me By: suyog | Jul 13, 2003 08:24 AM Any personal disagreement with the review, content, Gandhiji, et al, Please use M2M instead of clobbering up comments section. Me: This is a great book. I am yet to read one negative comment... Read complete review |  Read 1131 times |  Comments (20)	Very Useful
Product Rating: Readability: Story: Member's Recommendation: Yes	Freedom or Free-Doom! By: madlalya | Jun 25, 2003 09:32 AM In each passing century there are a few defining moments of which it can truly be said: Here history was made. Thus starts the preface to the 1997 edition of the book- Freedom at Midnight,... Read complete review |  Read 1708 times |  Comments (18)	Very Useful

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An Excellent Book. A Must Read By: inquizitor | Mar 08, 2003 09:53 AM <b> This is a classic book </b> While I read the book for the first time, a poem I read in Tamil came to my mind. When transliterated(I hate doing this!) it reads something... Read complete review |  Read 1003 times |  Comments (0)

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