The Blood telegram : Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide / Gary J. Bass.
2013
E855 .B34 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
The Blood telegram : Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide / Gary J. Bass.
Author
Bass, Gary Jonathan, 1969-
Edition
First Edition.
ISBN
9780307700209 hardcover
0307700208 hardcover
0307700208 hardcover
Published
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xxiv, 499 pages : map ; 25 cm
Call Number
E855 .B34 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.73054090/47
Summary
A full-length account of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in Pakistan's brutal 1970s military dictatorship argues that they encouraged China's military presence in India, illegally supplied weapons used in massacres and embraced military strategies that have negatively impacted geopolitics for decades. By the author of Freedom's Battle.
Note
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-478) and index.
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Table of Contents
South Asia, 1971
The tilt
Cyclone Pakistan
Mrs. Gandhi
"Mute and horrified witnesses"
The Blood telegram
The inferno next door
"Don't squeeze Yahya"
Exodus
India alone
The China channel
The East is Red
The Mukti Bahini
"The hell with the damn Congress"
Soviet friends
Kennedy
"We really slobbered over the old witch"
The guns of November
The fourteen-day war
"I consider this our Rhineland"
Aftermaths.
The tilt
Cyclone Pakistan
Mrs. Gandhi
"Mute and horrified witnesses"
The Blood telegram
The inferno next door
"Don't squeeze Yahya"
Exodus
India alone
The China channel
The East is Red
The Mukti Bahini
"The hell with the damn Congress"
Soviet friends
Kennedy
"We really slobbered over the old witch"
The guns of November
The fourteen-day war
"I consider this our Rhineland"
Aftermaths.