Critical appraisal of Jawaharlal Nehru as the Prime Minister of India, 1947-1964.

A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the world-wide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies-and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian Independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's Empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures though whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.

After three decades of silence, this daughter of traditional Italian-American stock tells the story of her sixteen-year love story with the crown prince of the Bruno family of Philadelphia. They lived just doors apart but this is no Romeo and Juliet story. Their families respected and loved one another; their mothers were close friends -- this is South Philadelphia, a place where Italian-Americans still live in true kinship. After years away, Rosina Rucci has come home to tell the story about the love of her life, her very best friend. Her beloved led two lives -- one was fast, hard and filled with treachery, but the other was about and for Rosina. 6000 Days Of Us is a heartbreaking tale of two young people joined in a profound, immortal love but divided by the critical and devastating choices they each had to make.

Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

In this beautifully written account of his daughter's first three years, psychologist and novelist Fernyhough combines his vivid observations with a synthesis of developmental theory, recreating what that time--lost to the memory of adults--is like from a child's perspective.