New book!
Hi everybody!
Just a quick heads up that I have a new book coming out in the fall. I'll post more details as they come available.In the meantime, here's the description as written by the publisher, and the goodreads link.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
On the eve of World War I, a band of Indian immigrants living in the United States hatched an audacious plan to liberate their homeland from British colonial rule. Founded by a group of student radicals at UC Berkeley, the Ghadar Movement mounted one of the most significant challenges to the British Raj before the rise of the Indian National Congress under Gandhi—but unlike the INC, the Ghadar Movement advocated for a violent insurrection against colonial rule. From its bases on the West Coast of the US and Canada, the movement recruited thousands of supporters via its underground newspaper and sent hundreds of freedom fighters across the Pacific in an attempt to smuggle guns and seditious literature into India—an effort abetted by spies working for the German government, who were keen to undermine a wartime adversary. All the while, the Ghadar Movement was tracked by Britain’s intelligence service, which eventually convinced the US government to crack down. The result was one of the most complex trials to date, culminating in a courtroom gun battle that shocked the nation. Scott Miller’s Let My Country Awake is the first book to tell the story of this overlooked moment in Indian, and American, history —one that offers a new perspective on anticolonial struggle in the twentieth century.
Just a quick heads up that I have a new book coming out in the fall. I'll post more details as they come available.In the meantime, here's the description as written by the publisher, and the goodreads link.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
On the eve of World War I, a band of Indian immigrants living in the United States hatched an audacious plan to liberate their homeland from British colonial rule. Founded by a group of student radicals at UC Berkeley, the Ghadar Movement mounted one of the most significant challenges to the British Raj before the rise of the Indian National Congress under Gandhi—but unlike the INC, the Ghadar Movement advocated for a violent insurrection against colonial rule. From its bases on the West Coast of the US and Canada, the movement recruited thousands of supporters via its underground newspaper and sent hundreds of freedom fighters across the Pacific in an attempt to smuggle guns and seditious literature into India—an effort abetted by spies working for the German government, who were keen to undermine a wartime adversary. All the while, the Ghadar Movement was tracked by Britain’s intelligence service, which eventually convinced the US government to crack down. The result was one of the most complex trials to date, culminating in a courtroom gun battle that shocked the nation. Scott Miller’s Let My Country Awake is the first book to tell the story of this overlooked moment in Indian, and American, history —one that offers a new perspective on anticolonial struggle in the twentieth century.
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Praise for "Let My Country Awake."
"Scott Miller tells a compelling and little-known story about India's freedom struggle―one involving a brave band of students and workers in America. This is a fascin Praise for "Let My Country Awake."
"Scott Miller tells a compelling and little-known story about India's freedom struggle―one involving a brave band of students and workers in America. This is a fascinating prism through which we see the wartime machinations of Germany, Britain, and the United States―and it all comes together in a made-for-Hollywood trial." ―Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN's GPS and author of Age of Revolutions ...more
"Scott Miller tells a compelling and little-known story about India's freedom struggle―one involving a brave band of students and workers in America. This is a fascin Praise for "Let My Country Awake."
"Scott Miller tells a compelling and little-known story about India's freedom struggle―one involving a brave band of students and workers in America. This is a fascinating prism through which we see the wartime machinations of Germany, Britain, and the United States―and it all comes together in a made-for-Hollywood trial." ―Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN's GPS and author of Age of Revolutions ...more
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"In Let My Country Awake, Scott Miller has written a true-life international spy thriller that is both an education in a forgotten corner of American history and a compelling adventure filled with a well-crafted cast of larger-than-life characters who jump off the page. One improbable―yet true―event dramatically follows another, and the result is a riveting, page-turning read." ―Howard Blum, New York Times bestselling author of In the Enemy’s House and Dark Invasion