This novel has been filmed starring Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins and is directed by Roland Joffe.[...]
The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi. On 14 August 1947 one-fif[...]
This is the story of living saints and heroes-- those who abandoned affluent and middle-class lives to dedicate themselves to the poor.[...]
"One of the premier historians of our time, Dominique Lapierre is the author of such stirring classics as Is Paris Burning? and The City of Joy. Famed for uncovering the humanity in historic events, he here joins forces with acclaimed writer Javier Moro. Together they investigate and chronicle each [...]