Living in the seeming hell of one of the poorest and most crowded quarters of Calcutta are the saints of today: saints such as Mother Teresa, saints such as Stephen Kovalski, an unkown Polish Catholic priest who made his home there to care for the poorest of the poor. And Max Loeb, an American physician […]
From the bestselling author of The City of Joy comes the dramatic story of the Allied liberation of Paris. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs the network of fateful events??the drama, the fervor, and the triumph??that heralded one of the most dramatic episodes of our time. This bestseller about 1944 Paris is timed to meet the demand […]
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre describes events in the Indian independence movement in 1947-8, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as last viceroy of British India, ending with the death & funeral of Gandhi. The authors, having interviewed many of those who were there, give a detailed account […]