The Blood telegram : Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide
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The Blood telegram : Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 499 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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.
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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Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2013.
Subject:
| 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. |
| Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023 |
| Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 |
| Kissinger, Henry Alfred |
| Kīsinjar, Hinrī, 1923-2023 |
| Chi-hsin-chi, 1923-2023 |
| Kissinger, Henry Alfred, 1923-2023 |
| Kissinger, Henry A., 1923-2023 |
| Kissinker, Chenry, 1923-2023 |
| Kissinger, Heinz Alfred, 1923-2023 |
| Kisinker, Chenri, 1923-2023 |
| Kisintzer, Chenri, 1923-2023 |
| קיסינג׳ר, הנרי |
| קיסינג׳ר, הנרי, 1923-2023 |
| קיסנג׳ר, הנרי, 1923-2023 |
| كسنگر، هنري، 1923-2023 |
| 基辛格亨利, 1923-2023 |
| Ni-kʻo-sung, 1913-1994 |
| Nikesong, 1913-1994 |
| Nikson, Ričard Milhaus, 1913-1994 |
| Ni-kʻo-hsün, 1913-1994 |
| Nikexun, 1913-1994 |
| Nikesen, 1913-1994 |
| Ni-kʻo-sen, 1913-1994 |
| Niksūn, Rītshārd, 1913-1994 |
| Nixon, Richard Milhous, 1913-1994 |
| Nixon, Richard, 1913-1994 |
| Cleansing, Ethnic |
| Ethnic cleansing |
| Ethnic purification |
| Ethnocide |
| Purification, Ethnic |
| Asia, South |
| Asia, Southern |
| Indian Sub-continent |
| Indian Subcontinent |
| Southern Asia |
| Bangladesh -- History -- Liberation War, 1971 |
| Bangladeshi Liberation War, 1971 |
| Pakistan -- History -- Civil War, 1971 |
| Pakistani Civil War, 1971 |
SAILS ISBN:
9780307700209