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Shameful Flight: Last Years Of The British Empire In India
Shameful Flight Last Years Of The British Empire In India
Author: Stanley Wolpert
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 legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has lasted over half a century. Ranging from the fall of Singap...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195151985
ISBN-10: 0195151984
Publication Date: 8/28/2006
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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