Mukerjee Madhusree

Churchill's secret war : the British empire and the ravaging of India during World War II - India Penguin Books 2018 - xl, 366 p

1. Empire at war
2. Harvesting the colonies
3. Scorched
4. At any price
5. Death of a thousand cuts
6. An occupied and starving country
7. In the village
8. On the street
9. Run rabbit run
10. Life after death
11. Split and quit
12. The reckoning

Winston Churchill has been venerated as a resolute statesman and one of the great political minds of the last century. But, as Madhusree Mukerjee reveals in this groundbreaking historical investigation, his deep-seated bias against Indians precipitated one of the world’s greatest man-made disasters — the Bengal Famine of 1943 — resulting in the deaths of over four million Indians. Combining meticulous research with a vivid narrative, Churchill’s Secret War places this overlooked tragedy into the larger context of World War II, India’s freedom struggle and Churchill’s legacy.

9780143441632

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