Churchill's Secret War

by Mukerjee, Madhusree

• ISBN13: 9780465024810
• ISBN10: 0465024815
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-12
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Winston Churchill, hero to the Western world, also had a dark side. Between 1939 and 1944, while he was brilliantly opposing the genocidal barbarism of the Nazis, Churchill made a series of decisions that directly--and knowingly--resulted in the deaths of some 4 million Indians. Even while the streets of Indian cities were lined with the emaciated bodies of the dead, Churchill callously withheld vital emergency shipments of food that would have saved untold Indian lives. Churchill's Secret Warplaces this overlooked tragedy into the larger context of the Second World War, India's fight for freedom, and Churchill's legacy.

Author Biography

Madhusree Mukerjee won a Guggenheim Fellowship to write her previous book, The Land of Naked People. She previously served on the board of editors of Scientific American. She lives near Frankfurt, 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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