The ill-planned withdrawal of the British from their Indian "colony" left nearly a million dead and created chaos, hatred and violence that lasted for more than 50 years and forced Winston Churchill to condemn it as a "shameful escape". These historical events complicated the history of India, Britain and Pakistan due to the ill-informed partition program implemented by the British authorities. The Shameful Flight covers the periods between the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in February 1942 and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. In this book, Wolpert's thesis argues against the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people who died after the partition of India. For example, Wolpert believes that the disaster was the result of Mountbatten's rushed process of nationhood in which the new boundaries between Punjab and Bengal led to murder, arson, and violence that left more than 10 million Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs displaced from their homes and more than five hundred thousand dead. In summary, The Shameful Flight is a story recounting the final years of British rule in I...