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Title

The blood telegram : Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide / Gary J. Bass.

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Description

xxiv, 499 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : maps, portraits, photographs ; 25 cm

Edition

First edition.

LOCATION	CALL NUMBER	VOL	BARCODE	LAST CHECKIN	STATUS
WB-Adult Collection	327.7305 BAS		3 0672 00262 6281	01-25-14	AVAILABLE

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

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