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Title The blood telegram : Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide / Gary J. Bass.
Publisher New York : Alfred A Knopf, ©2013.
Description xxiv, 499 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : maps, portraits, photographs ; 25 cm
Edition First edition.


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Note "This is a Borzoi book."
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-478) and index.
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.
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.
Subject Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Genocide -- Bangladesh.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974.
United States -- Foreign relations -- South Asia.
South Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Bangladesh -- History -- Revolution, 1971 -- Atrocities.
Other title Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.
ISBN 9780307700209
0307700208