THE MEN WHO KILLED GANDHI

Hardback. Nathuram Godse, the man who killed Mahatma Gandhi, at once gave himself up and was eventually hanged. But there were others implicated in the plot. Some were rounded up, convicted and given life sentences. The trial, conducted in an atmosphere of national grief, inflamed racial passions and a good deal of popular sympathy for the conspirators. All the facts never came out in court, and the Indian Government, afraid of setting off another wave of Hindu-Muslim massacres, even suppressed the statement made by the murderer in self-justification. The author interviewed the only men who knew how it all happened, the conspirators themselves. In this book, based largely on their testimony, he has combined the historian's accuracy and the novelist's narrative to tell a truly remarkable story. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned pp. o/w Vg+ in Vg+ dw.