Madhusree Mukerjee
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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and Ravaging of
India During World War II by
Madhusree Mukerjee The Churchill
industry has always denied that their idol could have done anything to relieve
the Bengal famine. Shipping, they claim, was scarce and it just wasn't possible
to send food to Bengal. Mukerjee nails those "terminological inexactitudes" with
precision. There was a shipping glut in summer and autumn 1943, thanks to the US
transferring cargo ships to British control. Churchill, Lindemann and their
close associates simply did not consider Indian lives worth saving.