Describes how Indira Gandhi, intimately involved in Indian political life even from childhood, became prime minister and the first woman to lead her country.

Indira Gandhi (Profiles (London, England).)

FISHLOCK, Trevor

Children's Books

David&Charles

Talking of Wales

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Conquerors of Time celebrates 150 years of courage, energy, innovation, resourcefulness and grand ideas, from the late 17th century to the early 20th. It's about the seafarers, engineers, inventors and trailblazers who enabled the British to hold together a vast empire and the Americans to push their frontiers west. Some, such as Captain Cook and Robert Stephenson are famous. Others, like the makers of chromonometers, the collectors of tropical plants or the railway engineers who roughed it in the Canadian wilderness are less well-known. What they all had in common is a desire to understand the world and a determination to harness the forces of nature. 'Trevor Fishlock's brio and broad vision matches those of his subjects and makes for a rattling good read.' Lawrence James, Daily Mail 'Fact-filled and highly evocative ... the sheer romance of the story is irresistible.' Sunday Telegraph

Conquerors of Time: Exploration and Invention in the Age of Daring

Travel

Faber and Faber

Academy Chicago Pub

India file

History

Asia

J.Murray

The State of America

Americas

"Get us out of red darkness!" The impassioned plea was scrawled on a protester's placard. The Soviet empire forged by Lenin and Stalin was disintegrating. The communist ruling class fought to hang on to power, priviledge and lucrative links with crime - and to hide the atrocities of the past. The huge Soviet army was riven by discontent while rumours of a coup fuelled the sense of collapse. As a foreign correspondent Trevor Fishlock lived and travelled widely in the Soviet Union, in Siberia and Samarkand, in the Caucasus and Baltic lands. He saw how Gorbachev's attempts at reform unleashed one of the great dramas of the 20th century, the fall of communism and its empire. Here is a dramatic picture of astonishing events - when history seemed to be written on lava. It is also the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times, making a life as best they can as old certainties vanish and queues for food and clothing lengthen. The narrative chronicles the first flowers springing up through Soviet concrete, cracking it apart. It describes the horror as troops try to smash rebellion and reimpose the rule of fear. The author finally journeys to free countries blinking in the post-communism dawn as tryants' statues fall.

Out of Red Darkness: Reports from the Collapsing Soviet Empire

World

John Murray Pubs Ltd

Trevor Fishlock set off from the harsh and haunted gables of the Khyber, zigzagged to the dazzle of India's southern tip at Cape Comorin and came at last to the little town whose intriguing name was the seed of his odyssey. Out of it all emerges the smell and feel of the subcontinent, a grand tapestry, history laced into the urgent present. Cobra Road ranges from the land of the 'Khyberees', nursery of the ruthless modern conquerors of Afghanistan, to brilliant and bloodied Punjab; to Kashmir, a paradise seemingly cursed by malignant gods and the unfinished business of history; to the deserts of Kutch; to the place where Gandhi drove in a coach and four to be hailed as the Great Soul; to the halls of haughty Rajput kings; to Bombay, teeming, loved and hated; to Delhi; to the pepper provinces around Cochin and the coconut grove in Kerala where the first spice-hungry Europeans landed; to the highlands of Coorg; to bandit country; to the Centre of the World ... and beyond.

Cobra Road: An Indian Journey

Conquerors of Time : Exploration and Invention in the Age of Daring

Conquerors of Time: Exploration and Invention in the Age of Daring SIGNED COPY

John Murray

Trevor Fishlock set off from the harsh and haunted gables of the Khyber, zigzagged to the dazzle of India's southern tip at Cape Comorin and came at last to the little town whose intriguing name was the seed of his odyssey. Out of it all emerges the smell and feel of the subcontinent, a grand tapestry, history laced into the urgent present in this narrative.

Cobra Road

Fishlock

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