Bibliograph

The Blood telegram, Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide, Gary J. Bass

Type

Label

The Blood telegram, Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide, Gary J. Bass

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-478) and index

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Blood telegram

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

842337440

Responsibility statement

Gary J. Bass

Sub title

Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide

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

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

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