The Blood Telegram
Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xxiv, 499 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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.
Subjects:
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
Genocide -- Bangladesh.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974.
Bangladesh -- History -- Revolution, 1971 -- Atrocities.
United States -- Foreign relations -- South Asia.
South Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
Genocide -- Bangladesh.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974.
Bangladesh -- History -- Revolution, 1971 -- Atrocities.
United States -- Foreign relations -- South Asia.
South Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States.
ISBN:
9780307700209 (hbk.)
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GOV Diplomacy Bas | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-478) and index.