The poorly planned withdrawal of the British from their Indian "colony" resulted in the deaths of nearly a million people and created chaos, hatred and violence that lasted over 50 years and forced Winston Churchill to condemn it like the 'shameful flight.' These historical events complicated the histories of India, Britain and Pakistan due to the ill-informed partition program carried out 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 the catastrophe was the result of Mountbatten's hasty nation-building process, in which new border lines in the middle of Punjab and Bengal resulted in murder, arson and violence that left over 10 million of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs displaced from their homes and over five hundred thousand dead. In summary, The Shameful Flight is a story that narrates the last years of British rule in I...