Author: STANLEY A. WOLPERT
Title: Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India
Description: New York, Oxford University Press. 2006, First Edition. (ISBN: 0195151984) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked white boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased. 238pp. This study of the Partition in India considers the responsibilty of the leaders, both British and Indian and the horrible cost in the loss of life and the millions who became refugees - a sobering read on the fall of Western imperialism. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: India, Partition, British Empire, Mountbatten 0195151984


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