A "shocking, important study of Britain's treatment of India in the second world war."--Max Hastings, The Sunday Times, London
An important though uncomfortable lesson for readers who think they know the heroes and villains of World War II.” --Kirkus A "savage indictment of Churchill’s policies...The horrific story that Ms. Mukerjee relates has been largely ignored in the vast volume of Churchillania produced in the last half-century.“--Washington Times
"Mukerjee has researched this forgotten holocaust with great care and forensic rigour … Her calmly phrased but searing account of imperial brutality will shame admirers of the Greatest Briton and horrify just about everybody else.“–The Independent
This book “reveals a side of Churchill largely ignored in the West and considerably tarnishes his heroic sheen.”–Time
“An epic indictment of British policies that cold-bloodedly caused the death of millions of ordinary Indians.”--Mike Davis
“This gripping account of historical tragedy is a useful corrective to fashionable theories of benign imperial rule, arguing that a brutal rapaciousness was the very soul of the Raj.” --Publishers Weekly