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The Blood Telegram - Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide (Paperback)
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The Blood Telegram - Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide (Paperback)
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New York Times Book of the Year The Blood Telegram is an
unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of
the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported
Pakistan's military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results
of a historic free election. The Pakistani army launched a
crackdown on what was then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing
hundreds of thousands of people and sending ten million refugees
fleeing to India - one of the worst humanitarian crises of the
twentieth century. Driven not just by Cold War realpolitik but by a
bitter personal dislike of India and its leader Indira Gandhi, they
silenced American officials who dared to speak up, secretly
encouraged China to mass troops on the Indian border, and illegally
supplied weapons to the Pakistani military - an overlooked scandal
that presages Watergate. Drawing on previously unheard White House
tapes, recently declassified documents, and extensive interviews
with White House staffers and Indian military leaders, The Blood
Telegram tells this thrilling story for the first time. Bass makes
clear how the United States' embrace of the military dictatorship
in Islamabad would mould Asia's destiny for decades, and confronts
for the first time Nixon and Kissinger's hidden role in a tragedy
that was far bloodier than Bosnia. This is a revelatory,
compulsively readable work of politics, personalities, military
confrontation, and Cold War brinksmanship.
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