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Shameful Flight - The Last Years of the British Empire in India
by Wolpert, Stanley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0195151984
- ISBN 13
- 9780195151985
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Oxford University Press, USA, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing, with full number line on copyright page and in clean unclipped dust jacket. White boards with yellow spine, gold lettering on spine. Light soiling. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean, with blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 238 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped (28.00 on front inside flap). Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Birtain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947 - condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill -- and its catastrophic effect on South Asia..
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023174
- Title
- Shameful Flight - The Last Years of the British Empire in India
- Author
- Wolpert, Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0195151984
- ISBN 13
- 9780195151985
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- GREAT BRITAIN, INDIA, BRITISH EMPIRE, HISTORY, STANLEY WOLPERT, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain; India;
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