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Crossed swords : Pakistan, its army, and the wars within / Shuja Nawaz.
LIBRA DS384 .N35 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nawaz, Shuja.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pakistan. Army.
- Political participation.
- Pakistan--Politics and government.
- Pakistan.
- Politics and government.
- Pakistan. Army--Political activity.
- Physical Description:
- xliv, 655 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- In history bound
- A difficult birth
- The first Kashmir war
- The legacy of conflict : chaos and ambitions
- Courting Uncle Sam
- Things fall apart
- The first coup
- Martial law and the search for legitimacy
- Wars and consequences
- September 1965 and Ayub's fall
- United Pakistan : how to break up a country
- Wars and consequences redux
- Bhutto rules
- Guardians of the faith
- The troika's musical chairs
- Systemic failures : the wars within
- The liberal autocrat
- Today and tomorrow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [608]-619) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195476606
- 0195476603
- OCLC:
- 213301920
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