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Format:

Book

Author:

Bass, Gary Jonathan, 1969-

Title:

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

Edition:

First Edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2013.

Description:

xxiv, 499 pages : map ; 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.

Subjects:

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.

Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023

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.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

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.

LCCN:

2013014788

ISBN:

9780307700209

0307700208

Other Number:

842337440

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

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1

Control Number:

407482

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Call Number:

327.73 Bass