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Published by Macmillan, 1979
ISBN 10: 0333182286ISBN 13: 9780333182284
Seller: Cocksparrow Books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: VG+/F/GD++. y First Edition. HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1979* Publisher: MacMillan* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Mono textual dust wrapper. Monochrome photo to rear. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £6.45. Slight shelf wear, small chips to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine with small tear at head. Spine somewhat faded. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight paper colouration to page margins. VG* Illustrations: None* Pages: 180 pp. text. iv pp. index at rear.* Description: This book, describes the plot that was behind the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. It follows the dark by-alleys of Pune (then known as Poona) and into the homes of the middle class Brahmins who were incensed at the inexplicable sacrifices made by Gandhi on behalf of the new nation, favoring Pakistan, a breakaway state that had just attacked its borders militarily. The story really describes a clash of principles between an aging man, who helped free a nation from the British, had never administered or governed a thing in his life, and was driven by impractical ideas of eternal sacrifices to buy peace against an equally patriotic set of people who believed that the new nation had to hold firm and forge its own identity.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. edition with minor shelf wear and light tanning reducing it to GD++* 1979-03-22. n.
Published by Macmillan, 1979
ISBN 10: 0333182286ISBN 13: 9780333182284
Seller: Loretta Lay Books, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Nathuram Godse, the man who killed Mahatma Gandhi, at once gave himself up and was eventually hanged. But there were others implicated in the plot. Some were rounded up, convicted and given life sentences. The trial, conducted in an atmosphere of national grief, inflamed racial passions and a good deal of popular sympathy for the conspirators. All the facts never came out in court, and the Indian Government, afraid of setting off another wave of Hindu-Muslim massacres, even suppressed the statement made by the murderer in self-justification. The author interviewed the only men who knew how it all happened, the conspirators themselves. In this book, based largely on their testimony, he has combined the historian's accuracy and the novelist's narrative to tell a truly remarkable story. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned pp. o/w Vg+ in Vg+ dw.
Published by Macmillan India, Madras, 1978
ISBN 10: 0333182286ISBN 13: 9780333182284
Seller: G W Jackson, St.Marys, ON, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This is a tight clean copy but for a couple of edge spots. 184pp including index.