Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India - Hardcoverby Stanley A. Wolpert (Author) Britain's precipitous and ill planned disengagement from India in 1947 condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has lasted over half a century. Ranging from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, Shameful Flight