The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer - Couverture souple
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Présentation de l'éditeur
On 13 April 1919, General Reginald Dyer marched a squad of Indian soldiers into the Jallianwala Bagh, a large enclosed public space in the holy city of Amritsar, and opened fire without warning on a crowd gathered to hear political speeches, leaving over 200 dead. To some, Dyer was the savior of India, responding decisively to threatened insurrection, but to many in India, including Gandhi and Nehru, his action proved the moral bankruptcy of the British Empire. The bitter debate that followed the shootings, the worst atrocity perpetrated by the British in the twentieth century, almost brought down the Liberal Government and was a decisive turning point in India's march to independence. "The Butcher of Amritsar" is a definitive account of the massacre set in the context of a biography of Reginald Dyer, a man whose attitudes reflected many of the views common in the Raj.
Revue de presse
"A superb biography" The Mail on Sunday, 1 May 2005 "Precise and comprehensive" Sunday Times, 24 April 2005 "This excellent new biography" BBC History, May 2005 "Thoroughly researched, welll-written and insightful account" The Spectator 16 April 2005 "An engrossing human story that casts a calm and steady light o the history if British imperialism, on the Raj, and on Dyer" The literary Review "Thorough reconstruction of the events and a convincing study of their perpetrator& --Independant 1 May 2005
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- ÉditeurHambledon Continuum
- Date d'édition2006
- ISBN 10 1852855754
- ISBN 13 9781852855758
- ReliureBroché
- Langueanglais
- Nombre de pages591
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