

The Last Englishmen
Love, War, and the End of Empire
Author: Deborah Baker
Narrator: James Cameron Stewart
Unabridged: 14 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 08/21/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History, European History
Synopsis
Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep.