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 | Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India (Reprint Edition) by Stanley Wolpert (Emeritus Professor Of History, University Of California, Los Angeles) Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-539394-5 / 0195393945 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-539394-1 / 9780195393941 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 ha | |