Churchill called it “shameful flight,” and this disturbing book makes clear just what a hash Britons made of quitting India and of their concomitant partition of Punjab and Bengal, which resulted in the mutual slaughter of at least a million Muslims, Sikhs, and Hindus. Shameful Flight by Stanley Wolpert (Oxford)Įven the most die-hard defender of British rule of the subcontinent can’t claim that the imperial power’s final act was its finest hour.

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Shameful flight by stanley wolpert