Description

An understrength Gorkha battalion undertakes the Indian Armys first heliborne operation deep behind enemy lines defeating a Pakistani force twenty times its strength Fighters of the Indian Air force target the Government House in Dhaka in a daring air raid forcing the Pakistani government in Dhaka to capitulate and surrender Four battle casualties become close friends at the Artificial Limb Centre in Pune in the wars aftermathIn this collection of true stories decorated war veteran Major General Ian Cardozo recounts what really happened during the 1971 IndoPak war piecing together every story in vivid detail through interviews with survivors and their families The book also seeks to commemorate the lives of those who were killed and wounded in this war which took place fifty years agoFrom the tragic tale of the INS Khukri and its courageous captain who went down with his ship to how a battalion of the Gorkhas launched what we accept as the last khukri attack in modern military history these stories reveal what went on in the minds of those who led their men into battleon land at sea and in the air