Churchill's Choice: The British Empire and the Forgotten Indian Famine of World War II

A dogged enemy of Hitler and bold leader of Great Britain through World War II, Winston Churchill has been venerated as one of the great political minds of the last century. The darker side of Churchill's record during WWII, however, has gone woefully unexamined. At the same time that Churchill vehemently opposed the Nazi's genocidal barbarism, he governed India with total contempt for Indian lives. A series of Churchill's decisions between 1940 and 1944 directly and inexorably led to the deaths of some three million Indians.Closely researched and vividly detailed, historian Madhusree Mukerjee'sChurchill's Secret Warrestores this oft-overlooked tragedy to the larger context of WWII, Churchill's legacy, India's fight for independence, and the ultimate downfall of Britain's global empire.Mukerjee, Madhusree is the author of 'Churchill's Choice: The British Empire and the Forgotten Indian Famine of World War II', published 2009 under ISBN 9780465002016 and ISBN 0465002013.