Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
by Arthur Herman
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Author: Arthur HermanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-29
ISBN: 0553804634
Number of pages: 736
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: "An Epic That Must Be Read"
Summary: 5 Stars
"Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age", Arthur Herman, Bantam Books, NY 2008. ISBN 978-0-553-80463-8, HC 609/722. Notes 50 pgs., Ref., 12 pgs., Index 34 pgs., Glossary 3 pgs., Dates 3 pgs., 9 ¼" x 6 ¼". Inveiglements include 35 glossy B/W photos and 3 schema maps of Africa & India.
This detailed, lengthy chronicle, thoughtfully divided into 31 chapters, is brilliantly written in fast-moving style by best-selling author Arthur Herman. It's a narrative journal about two legendary worldly figures - Gandhi and Churchill whose lives and life forces entwined as both struggled relentlessly against one another, ...so much sound and fury wont to evoke primal screams of differing secular humanisms. We learn about their early years, of their accomplices or sidekicks, of their rise in worldly stature via victories and losses, where sophistication can be triumphed by naivety, and where melancholy necessitates time out, and about a blood-bath too frequently skipped over unequalled in history.
We generally think of fiction as attention-getting and if its really good, something hard to put down -- but this is so true of Herman's book, which is basically recent history - much of which most of us likely experienced dispassionately, unless we served overseas in military combat.
Did you ever think reading history could be exciting, that experiencing history as it is written and told is all but invariably propagandized whereby accounts by third parties sounds distantly foreign but can be verified by reliable sources? Well, "Gandhi & Churchill" is a tremendous read and you'll wonder why so much passed you by - you'll discover the personages in detail and understand better why Rommel and British Army were in Africa, of the racial-ethnic caste mix in India, of India's division into Bangledesh, Pakistan and India, locations Japanese invaded India, parental forces which drove Churchill, whether Winston truly drank whiskey in the morning, and if Gandhi enjoyed sex? and what he really died from - and so much, much more.
Author Herman could have written separate books on these two personages, but combining them was grandiose. Do not miss this book!
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