Kim Wagner

A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire: the Amritsar Massacre Amritsar 1919 chronicles the run-up to Jallianwala Bagh with spellbinding, almost minute-by-minute focus. . . . Mr. Wagner’s achievement is one of balance—of minutiae and sweep and, above all, of perspective.”—Maxwell Carter, Wall Street Journal The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 was...