Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert

Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India

Stanley Wolpert

238 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative fast-paced
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Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a l...

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