false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg 2313808 7 In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.<b><br><br></b>They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain&#8217;s most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas Gandhi to a pious middle-class household in a provincial town in India. Yet Arthur Herman reveals how their lives and careers became intertwined as the twentieth century unfolded. Both men would go on to lead their nations through harrowing trials and two world wars&#8212;and become locked in a fierce contest of wills that would decide the fate of countries, continents, and ultimately an empire. <br><br><b>Gandhi & Churchill</b> reveals how both men were more alike than different, and yet became bitter enemies over the future of India, a land of 250 million people with 147 languages and dialects and 15 distinct religions&#8212;the jewel in the crown of Britain&#8217;s overseas empire for 200 years.<br><br>Over the course of a long career, Churchill would do whatever was necessary to ensure that India remain British&#8212;including a fateful redrawing of the entire map of the Middle East and even risking his alliance with the United States during World War Two.<br><br>Mohandas Gandhi, by contrast, would dedicate his life to India&#8217;s liberation, defy death and imprisonment, and create an entirely new kind of political movement: <i>satyagraha,</i> or civil disobedience. His campaigns of nonviolence in defiance of Churchill and the British, including his famous Salt March, would become the blueprint not only for the independence of India but for the civil rights movement in the U.S. and struggles for freedom across the world.<br><br>Now master storyteller Arthur Herman cuts through the legends and myths about these two powerful, charismatic figures and reveals their flaws as well as their strengths. The result is a sweeping epic of empire and insurrection, war and political intrigue, with a fascinating supporting cast, including General Kitchener, Rabindranath Tagore, Franklin Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. It is also a brilliant narrative parable of two men whose great successes were always haunted by personal failure, and whose final moments of triumph were overshadowed by the loss of what they held most dear. 2320234 29 4 2008 Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age total:61|5:18|4:28|3:13|2:2|1:0| 61 245 177 21 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 5 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 20 16:24:36 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 16:40:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 3 1 false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 19:22:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 23:59:31 -0700 2009
I am no historian, or even a scholar who is well-versed in the material that this book concerns itself with. Therefore, this review is strictly a layman’s review.

Popular historian Arthur Herman in this book scripts parallel biographies of MK Gan...more...]]> 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 4 0 false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 21 17:26:14 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 20 12:47:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 4 0 false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 13:24:08 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 08:29:17 -0700 2009
What I learned from this book is how popular opinion can shape people's opinions of historical figures. We often get the filtered view and we...more...]]> 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 3 0 false Wed Jul 29 12:30:47 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 12:37:08 -0700 2009
A well researched and detailed book,...more...]]> 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 4 0 false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 31 17:28:18 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 11 08:18:55 -0700 2009
Subtle, understated facts about ...more...]]> 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 3 0 false Sat Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 19:09:54 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 13 09:03:45 -0800 2009
The biggest message that I learned from this book is that their contributions were not necessarily positive, either one of them. People are fallible; great...more...]]> 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 4 0 false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 16:25:52 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 04:15:24 -0700 2009 and also great notes on the two individuals who along with Hitler, Stalin and Roosevelt, helped shape our world during that time..
many surprising notes about G and C and their pe...more...]]> 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 23:54:09 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 23:57:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 4 0 false Sat Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 11 06:17:10 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 06:21:16 -0700 2009 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 4 0 false Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 10:22:58 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 12:51:36 -0700 2009 I always blamed the English (and French) for the mess in the Middle East since WWI, bu...more...]]> 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 04 18:14:51 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 18:16:42 -0800 2009 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 4 0 false Fri Mar 27 12:23:32 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 12:24:25 -0700 2009 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 4 0 false Mon Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Sep 23 03:57:16 -0700 2009 Sun Dec 06 17:05:18 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 4 0 false Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 27 16:10:47 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 18 20:46:22 -0800 2009 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 4 0 false Thu Sep 04 18:51:51 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 18:30:13 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 18:51:51 -0700 2008 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 3 0 false Fri Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 22:20:15 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 07:36:05 -0700 2008 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 5 0 false Mon Jul 21 16:30:05 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 16:32:03 -0700 2008 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 5 0 false Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 08:02:41 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 13:41:15 -0700 2008 2313808 0553804634 9780553804638 58 21 4.02 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255961819m/2313808.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2313808.Gandhi_Churchill_The_Epic_Rivalry_that_Destroyed_an_Empire_and_Forged_Our_Age 4 0 false Wed Jul 09 14:35:46 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 14:37:03 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2313808