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Author:

Bass, Gary Jonathan, 1969- author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First Vintage Books edition, July 2014.

Publisher:

Vintage Books,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxiv, 499 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Nixon, Richard M.--(Richard Milhous),--1913-1994.
Kissinger, Henry,--1923-
United States--Foreign relations--1969-1974.
Bangladesh--Atrocities.--Revolution, 1971--Atrocities.
Genocide--Bangladesh.
United States--Foreign relations--South Asia.
South Asia--Foreign relations--United States.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-478) and index.

Contents:

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" -- Epilogue: aftermaths.

Summary:

"This magnificent history provides the first full account of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger's secret support for Pakistan in 1971 as it committed shocking atrocities in Bangladesh - which led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left major strategic consequences for the world today." -- Back cover.

ISBN:

0307744620
9780307744623

OCLC:

(OCoLC)885027778

LCCN:

2014378696

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)