Another glimpse of Arthur Herman's new book on Gandhi and Churchill is available here: http://cvillewords.com/2008/05/03/espionage-and-history-at-new-dominion-bookshop/ May 3, 2008 Arthur Herman, Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age Quote: ***Although Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill met only once, their paths were set on a collision course from the 1890s through the darkest hours of World War Two. In the end, after decades of struggle and failure, their forty year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire. Now, bestselling historian Arthur Herman has written a fascinating and meticulously researched new history and the first book to detail the unexplored relationship between these iconic personalities. Born five years and several thousand miles apart, Gandhi and Churchill couldn't seem more different- Churchill as a member of one of Britain's most glamorous and aristocratic families, Gandhi a part of a pious middle-class household in a provincial town in India. Yet Gandhi & Churchill reveals how both men were more alike than different, and went on to became bitter enemies over the future of India. In this scrupulously investigated work, Herman illustrates how their titanic contest of wills would decide the fate of nations, continents, peoples, and ultimately an empire. Gandhi & Churchill sets the struggle for Indian independence against the backdrop of the most traumatic episodes of the twentieth century, from the outbreak of the Great War to the end of World War Two, and illustrates how each radically transformed the other-and transformed the lives of these two heroic personalities. The book is illuminated with dozens of photographs and maps, illustrating the swath of power and destruction these men oversaw, and how their power and influence changed the face of the globe. "Arthur Herman offers a balanced and elegant account which captures both Churchill's generosity of spirit and Gandhi's greatness of soul. While recognizing their faults, he shows what motivated them and made them great - with impressive research that in Churchill's words leaves "no stone unturned, no cutlet uncooked." The last two chapters, and the author's Conclusion, are alone worth the price of what must become the standard work on the subject." - Richard M. Langworth, Editor, Finest Hour, The Churchill Centre Arthur Herman is the bestselling author of How the Scots Invented the Modern World as well as The Idea of Decline in Western History and To Rule the Waves. He has been a professor of history at Georgetown University, George Mason University, and the University of the South. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. *** unquote ================================= ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India