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Per your request, this message is to notify you that
CHURCHILL'S SECRET WAR: THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE RAVAGING OF INDIA
DURING WORLD WAR II
by Mukerjee, Madhusree
has now been published.
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Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Basic Books (August 10, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0465002013
ISBN-13: 978-0465002016
"Winston Churchill's dislike of India and Indians has been known to
scholars. But now, in Churchill's Secret War, we have, for the first time,
definitive evidence of how a great man's prejudices contributed to one of
the most deadly famines in modern history. In her book, Madhusree Mukerjee
writes evocatively of how hunger and rebellion in rural Bengal was a product
of cynicism and callousness in imperial London. Deeply researched and
skillfully constructed, this is a major contribution to Indian history and
to the history of the Second World War."
"An epic indictment of British policies that cold-bloodedly caused the death
of millions of ordinary Indians during the Second World War. With impeccable
research, Mukerjee debunks the conventional hagiography of Churchill,
showing 'the last imperialist's' monstrous indifference to the peoples of
the sub- continent."
Churchill's Secret War is a major work of historical scholarship, which
reveals that one of the 20th century's greatest heroes was also one of its
greatest villains. Mukerjee's elegant, precise prose and meticulous research
make her tale of colonial brutality all the more gripping and horrific."
etc. . .
http://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Secret-War-British-Ravaging/dp/0465002013/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281346438&sr=1-1
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