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At the Forward Edge of Battle - A History of the Pakistan Armoured Corps 1938-2016 (Paperback)
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At the Forward Edge of Battle - A History of the Pakistan Armoured Corps 1938-2016 (Paperback)
Series: Asia@War
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This is a well-researched and authoritative account by a military
historian, Maj Gen Syed Ali Hamid. It embraces the evolution of the
Pakistan Armoured Corps, including its culture, organisation,
doctrine, equipment, operational performance, overseas deployment,
garrisons, personalities and a myriad of events that together
portray what and why the corps is at this point in time. Beginning
with the mechanization of the Indian cavalry in 1938, it spans
nearly 95 years and chronicles the corps remarkable growth. It
narrates how a redundant horse mounted force went through various
stages of metamorphosis, surmounted the challenges of Independence
and transformed from a small supporting arm into the mechanized
spearhead of the Pakistan Army. Its richness lies in the portrayal
the Muslim clans that form the rank and file of the Armoured Corps,
as well as tracing the development of its officer corps from its
genesis and onwards through the Second World War and leading onto
post-Independence. This includes an assessment of many
personalities who performed a leading role in the development of
the corps. It also provides an interesting insight into the culture
of the Pakistan Armoured Corps which is a unique blend of values
and traditions inherited from its predecessor, with those of a
post-Independence national army. This highly informative book
compliments publications on the Pakistan Army by elaborating on the
role and structure of one of its principal arms. Since it covers in
some detail the Pakistan-India conflicts, it also compliments books
published by the Indian authors by presenting a view from 'the
other side of the hill.' To place the evolution and development of
the armoured corps in context, the author has painstakingly
researched and presented hitherto fragmented information on the
Pakistan Army. Consequently the book also emerges as a work of
value to an audience which is interested in how the Pakistan Army
evolved and the milestones in its development. Having served in the
Pakistan Army for 50 years, the author has a unique insight into
the evolution of the corps and is linked with its past through his
father Maj Gen Syed Shahid Hamid who was commissioned from
Sandhurst into the cavalry of British India in 1933. Shahid was one
of the pioneers of the Pakistan Army and the author of several
books on political and military history of the sub-continent. The
publication is liberally illustrated with a large number of
photographs, many of them unpublished, which makes for very
interesting reading. There is also a liberal use of maps to support
the text. For a serious student of the military history of the
Pakistan-India Subcontinent, this book is a major scholarly work
with footnotes / endnotes, a bibliography of ten pages of primary
and secondary references, and two large indexes.
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