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Defeat is an orphan : how Pakistan lost the great South Asian war / Myra MacDonald.
Van Pelt Library DS450.P18 M33 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacDonald, Myra, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Pakistan--Foreign relations--India.
- Pakistan.
- International relations.
- India.
- India--Foreign relations--Pakistan.
- Pakistan--History--21st century.
- India--History--21st century.
- Nuclear weapons--Pakistan.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Nuclear weapons--India.
- Physical Description:
- x, 313 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- How Pakistan lost the great South Asian war
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hurst & Company, 2017.
- Summary:
- Tracks the defining episodes in the relationship between India and Pakistan since 1998.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The spider's web
- Settling a score: from 1947 to the nuclear tests
- "A brilliant tactical operation": Pakistan's defeat in the Kargil War of 1999
- The general and the poet: from the Kargil War to the Agra summit
- The assassins from afar: Pakistan and Afghanistan
- "Somebody's going to pay": from the September 11 attacks to the end of 2001
- The attack on the Indian Parliament: the trial of Afzal Guru
- Pursuit of valour: the India-Pakistan military standoff, 2001-2002
- In the name of the people: a short history of the Kashmir dispute from 1846 to state elections in 2002
- The noble lie: the India-Pakistan peace talks, 2001-2007
- War by other means: the attack on Mumbai
- Anatomy of murder: Pakistan's relationship with its north-west frontier, 1947-2011
- Pursuit of parity: the closing years
- Epilogue: A jaw for a tooth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781849046411
- 1849046417
- OCLC:
- 967964428
- Publisher Number:
- 99970219142
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