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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II
Madhusree Mukerjee
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Paperback. A bracing narrative of wartime India and the tremendous famine that resulted when Churchill sacrificed the lives of four million Bengalis to win World War II Num Pages: 368 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBJF; HBWQ; JPHL. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 470. The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II. 368 pages, maps. A bracing narrative of wartime India and the tremendous famine that resulted when Churchill sacrificed the lives of four million Bengalis to win World War II. Cateogry: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBJF; HBWQ; JPHL. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 25. Weight: 478.
A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements, parts of Churchill's record have gone woefully unexamined. As journalist Madhusree Mukerjee reveals, at the same time that Churchill brilliantly opposed the barbarism of the Nazis, he governed India with a fierce resolve to crush its freedom movement and a profound contempt for native lives. A series of Churchill's decisions between 1940 and 1944 directly and inevitably led ... Read more
A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements, parts of Churchill's record have gone woefully unexamined. As journalist Madhusree Mukerjee reveals, at the same time that Churchill brilliantly opposed the barbarism of the Nazis, he governed India with a fierce resolve to crush its freedom movement and a profound contempt for native lives. A series of Churchill's decisions between 1940 and 1944 directly and inevitably led ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Basic Books
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
474g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465024810
SKU
V9780465024810
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About Madhusree Mukerjee
Madhusree Mukerjee won a Guggenheim fellowship to write her previous book, The Land of Naked People. She has served on the board of editors of Scientific American. She lives near Frankfurt, Germany.
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