Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Preface

Map: South Asia, 1971

  1. The Tilt

  2. Cyclone Pakistan

  3. Mrs. Gandhi

  4. “Mute and Horrified Witnesses”

  5. The Blood Telegram

  6. The Inferno Next Door

  7. “Don’t Squeeze Yahya”

  8. Exodus

  9. India Alone

10. The China Channel

11. The East Is Red

12. The Mukti Bahini

13. “The Hell with the Damn Congress”

14. Soviet Friends

15. Kennedy

16. “We Really Slobbered over the Old Witch”

17. The Guns of November

18. The Fourteen-Day War

19. “I Consider This Our Rhineland”

Epilogue: Aftermaths

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Author

Illustrations

Illustration Credits

Other Books by This Author