Churchill's Secret War

by Mukerjee, Madhusree

• ISBN13: 9780465002016
• ISBN10: 0465002013
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-10
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Relying on extensive archival research and firsthand interviews, Mukerjee weaves a riveting narrative of the Bengal Famine of 1943-44 in which millions of villagers starved to death, and Churchill's decisions to ratchet up the demands on India as the war unfolded.

Author Biography

Madhusree Mukerjee is the author of The Land of Naked People for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has spoken at the United Nations on behalf of indigenous peoples and been a guest on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” addressing the same issue. A former editor at Scientific American, she lives in Germany.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Our Title to India	p. ix
Maps	p. xxxii
Empire at War	p. 1
Harvesting the Colonies	p. 31
Scorched	p. 57
At Any Price	p. 81
Death of a Thousand Cuts	p. 103
An Occupied and Starving Country	p. 131
In the Village	p. 151
On the Street	p. 169
Run Rabbit Run	p. 191
Life after Death	p. 219
Split and Quit	p. 239
The Reckoning	p. 265
Acknowledgments	p. 281
Bibliography	p. 283
Notes	p. 295
Index	p. 321
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