Background
Collins, Larry was born on September 14, 1929 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of John Laurence and Helen (Cannon) Collins.
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From the bestselling author of The City of Joy comes the dramatic story of the Allied liberation of Paris. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs the network of fateful events--the drama, the fervor, and the triumph--that heralded one of the most dramatic episodes of our time. This bestseller about 1944 Paris is timed to meet the demand for Dominique Lapierre books that will be generated by the March release of his compelling new Warner hardcover, Beyond Love.
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[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Frederick Davidson] ''Is Paris burning?'' is the question Hitler asked over and over as the French Second and American Fourth Divisions battered their way into the city. Few moments in history are as stirring as the Allied liberation of Paris, yet few people are aware of how narrowly -- and how miraculously -- the city escaped Hitler's secret plan to reduce it to ashes. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs, in meticulous and riveting detail, the network of fateful events -- day by day, moment by moment -- that saved the City of Light. Bestselling authors and renowned journalists Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre spent three years researching this book, drawing on French Resistance radio messages, German military records, countless interviews, and secret correspondence between de Gaulle, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. Here they re-create the drama, the fervor, and the triumph that heralded one of the most dramatic events of our time.
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First published in 1975, this 2009 edition is a new edition of the best-selling book described as irreplaceable by Le Monde, Paris. It is a poignant reminder of the defining moments of the end of the British Raj, the independence of 400 million people, their division into India and the newly created Pakistan. Time Magazine raised a poetic salutation to this brilliantly written book, hailing it as the Song of India . . . illuminated like scenes in a pageant . The significance of the new edition lies in engaging the minds of two generations born into a free country, to enable them to empathetically understand the aspirations and goals that united our leaders then towards the common cause of freedom. The significance lies in invoking the re-awakening of the Indian spirit. Surely it is time for the over 1 billion people in India to ask themselves honestly what their contribution has been thus far towards realizing an India free from poverty, illiteracy and inequality. While numerous tomes have been written on the Indian freedom struggle, the popularity of Freedom at Midnight lies in its easy narrative flow which veers from the thrilling to the enlightening, sometimes poignant and ever-compelling style.
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The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi. On 14 August 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen. But 400 million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom was partition and war, riot and murder. In this superb reconstruction, Collins and Lapierre recount the eclipse of the fabled British Raj and examine the roles enacted by, among others, Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Mountbatten in its violent transformation into the new India and Pakistan. This is the India of Jawaharlal Nehru, heart-broken by the tragedy of the country's division; of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a Moslem who drank, ate pork and rarely entered a mosque, yet led 45 million Moselms to nationhood; of Gandhi, who stirred a subcontinent without raising his voice; of the last viceroy, Mountbatten, beseeched by the leaders of an independent India to take back the powers he'd just passed to them.
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In a suspenseful novel of terrorist threat, Libyan leader Qaddafi holds New York City hostage with the threat of setting off a hidden nuclear bomb. 12 cassettes.
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A beautiful French agent, Catherine Pradier, risks her life to deceive the Nazis as to where and when the Allies will invade the Continent of Europe and begin the end of World War II.
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When Iran's deadly nuclear game is revealed, CIA agent Frank Williams realizes there is only one man made for the job of traveling to the other side of the world to neutralize this threat: his disgraced but tough-as-lead former partner, agent Jim Duffy.
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How Israel-the racist state that has the bomb-pushed the U.S. into the senseless war in Iraq and now demands the United States wage an insane war against Iran! The nuclear "Golem" is the bizarre and dangerous cornerstone of Israel's national security policy . . . Development of a nuclear arsenal was the foundation of Israeli policy from the beginning. In The GOLEM, Michael Collins Piper examines not only the fanatical nature of this nuclear policy, but also the ongoing danger of political and civil instability in Israel where anti-Christian and anti-Muslim forces are rising to power. In Israel today the strange and frightening Talmud-based legend of the Golem remains a much-celebrated force in popular culture, inextricably linked-as shown at right in a contemporary illustration-to Israel's national security mindset and thinking. . . . You'll find the whole incredible story in The GOLEM-exclusively from AFP.
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With detailed and abundant historical materials, vivid and beautiful language, solid human deposits, the author represents the zigzagging history of India fighting for its independence in this book. Start from the foreshadowing of the split of India because the United Kingdom of Britain passed Mountbatten Plan on the eve of Indian independence, this book tells the history to the official independence of India where the activities of Gandhi are the focus. Conflicts between Muslims and Hindus surged, Gandhi was assassinated, and India and Pakistan were finally split. This book presents the most volatile and charming scenes in history.
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"Un jour que je me trouve à Calcutta, un tireur de pousse-pousse me conduit dans l'un des quartiers les plus pauvres et surpeuplés de cette ville hallucinante où 300 000 sans-abri vivent dans la rue. Le quartier s'appelle "Anand Nagar' - la Cité de la Joie. C'est le choc de ma vie. Car, au cœur de cet enfer, je trouve plus d'héroïsme, plus d'amour, plus de partage, plus de joie et, finalement, plus de bonheur que dans bien des villes de notre riche Occident. Je rencontre des gens qui n'ont rien et qui, pourtant, possède tout. Dans tant de laideur, de grisaille, de boue et de merde, je découvre plus de beauté et d'espoir que dans bien des paradis de chez nous. Surtout, je découvre que cette ville inhumaine a le pouvoir magique de fabriquer des saints. Des saints comme Mère Teresa, mais aussi des saints complètement inconnus, comme ce Paul Lambert, une prêtre catholique français qui s'est installé dans la Cité de la Joie pour partager, secourir et guérir les plus déshérités. Comme ce jeune médecin américain venu de Floride pour soigner des hommes sans aucune ressource médicale. Comme cet ancien marchand de chemises de Londres qui sauve des enfants de lépreux. Comme Bandona, cette jolie infirmière assamaise devenue l'Ange de la miséricorde de tous les flagellés de la Cité de la Joie. Comme ces milliers d'hommes, de femmes et d'enfants, condamnés à survivre avec moins de cinquante centimes par jour, à surmonter les malédictions d'un destin implacable. A vaincre avec le sourire.Pour raconter leur épopée, je me suis immergé pendant des mois dans la terrible réalité de leur quartier. J'ai dormi dans le taudis de Lambert, un réduit de deux mètres sur un mètre, sans aération ni lumière, infesté de rats, de scolopendres, de cloportes, envahi par l'eau et le débordement des latrines à chaque orage. Avec pour voisins une famille de tuberculeux et une communauté d'eunuques. J'ai vécu des journées avec Lambert, Max et Bandona dans la petite colonie de lépreux au bout du bidonville et découvert leur extraordinaire culture, leur goût pour la fête. J'ai passé de longues heures avec le parrain de la mafia locale, un personnage digne des empereurs monghols. Près des étables à buffles, j'ai assisté aux prodigieuses représentations de la légende de Râmâyana. Avec les enfants, j'ai joué au jeu roi du bidonville, le cerf-volant, fait de pauvres morceaux de carton et de tissus qui emportent par-dessus la grisaille des toits tous les rêves de ce peuple d'emmurés. J'ai participé aux naissances, aux mariages, aux crémations, aux fêtes des hindous, des musulmans, des sikhs, des chrétiens et de toutes les communautés de cette mosaïque de peuples et de religions. J'ai tiré des rickshaws et roulé des "bidi' dans les ateliers-bagnes où des enfants de six et sept ans confectionnent plus de douze cents cigarettes par jour. J'ai fait la queue entre minuit et trois heures du matin pour aller aux latrines (il y a une latrines pour 2500 habitants) et j'ai appris à me laver de la tête aux pieds avec moins d'un demi-litre d'eau. Surtout, surtout, j'ai appris à garder toujours le sourire, à remercier Dieu pour le moindre bienfait, à écouter les autres, à ne pas avoir peur de la mort, à ne jamais désespérer."Dominique Lapierre
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This book vividly describes the whole process of the liberation of Paris in August 1944. The two writers Larry Collins and Dominic Lapierre were two journalists from the Newsweek and Paris Match. They spent three years searching for historical facts; they read the military files of the three sides, France, Germany and United States of America and interviewed more than 800 people, including Eisenhower, the senior aide of Charles de Gaulle and the private soldiers of the French, German and American army as well as the citizens of Paris. They used the personal experience of 536 people. Thus, this book is true and real to every detail.
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Collins, Larry was born on September 14, 1929 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of John Laurence and Helen (Cannon) Collins.
Graduate, Loomis Institute, Windsor, Connecticut, 1947. Bachelor, Yale University, 1951.
With advertising department Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati, 1951-1952. With United Press International, 1956-1959, correspondent Middle East, 1957-1959. Middle East editor Newsweek magazine, 1959-1961.
Chief Newsweek magazine (Paris bureau), 1961-1964.
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(American Free Press; Washington D.C.. 2007 First Edition.)
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(History)
Author: (with Dominique La Pierre) Is Paris Burning, 1965, Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, 1967, O, Jerusalem!, 1972, Freedom at Midnight, 1975, The Fifth Horseman, 1980, Mountbatten and the Partition of India, 1982, Fall from Grace, 1985, Maze, 1989, Black Eagles, 1993, Le Jour du Miracle: D Day Paris, 1994, Tomorrow Belongs to Us, 1998, The Road to Armageddon, 2003, New York Brule-t-il?, 2004.
With Army of the United States, 1953-1955, European Theatre of Operations.
Tennis, skiing.
Married Nadia Hoda Sultan, September 17, 1966. Children– John Lawrence III, Michael Kevin.