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| kargil from surprise to victory book free download: Kargil : From Surprise To Victory Malik V P General, 2010-06-17 The definitive account of the 1999 Kargil war - the strategy, the effects, the heroism - from the man in charge. In February 1999, Pakistani Army personnel, disguised as jehadi militants, infiltrated into mountainous Kargil and occupied key vantage points. Their intrusion triggered off a limited war between the world's newest nuclear states. It was a bitter battle, and one that throws up important lessons for India's defence preparedness, as also its responses to flare-ups such as this. This book is also a reminder of the unparalleled heroism that was on display during those grim weeks, heroism that has become a benchmark for bravery. |
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| kargil from surprise to victory book free download: 1962 Shiv Kunal Verma, 2016 An Indian politician looks back at her journey and recounts how the going got tougher with her every success, perhaps because she was a woman. Life among the Scorpions recounts the deeply fascinating and often tumultuous events that mark thirty years of Jaya Jaitly's political journey. From arranging relief for victims of the 1984 Sikh riots, to joining politics under firebrand leader George Fernandes, to becoming the president of Samata Party-a key ally in the erstwhile NDA Government, Jaitly's rise in Indian mainstream politics invited both awe and envy. But the going has been far from smooth. Trouble began with George Fernandes sacking Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat in 1998. Jaitly became the target. She was soon hounded by Tehelka's stings-first concerning her son-in-law-to-be Ajay Jadeja and then herself in an alleged bribery case. Eventually, Fernandes had to resign as India's Defence Minister, despite being the best, and Jaitly quit as the Samata Party President. Meanwhile, she spiritedly fought booth capturing in Bihar as well as fellow party men's egos, intervened and ensured the installation of the Samata government in Manipur. All this, even as she continued her parallel fight for the livelihood of craftsmen on the one hand, and conceptualized and ensured establishment of the first Dilli Haat (crafts market place) in 1994 on the other. With all the backstories of major events in Indian politics between 1970-2000, including her experience of dealing with the Commission of Inquiry and courts regarding the Tehelka stings, the story of Jaya Jaitly makes for a riveting read. A powerful narrative on why being a woman in politics was for her akin to being surrounded by scorpions; this hard hitting memoir offers a perspective on the functioning of Indian politics from a woman's point of view. |
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| kargil from surprise to victory book free download: Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia Peter R. Lavoy, 2009-11-12 A unique account of military conflict under the shadow of nuclear escalation, with access to the soldiers and politicians involved. |
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| kargil from surprise to victory book free download: India's Wars Arjun Subramaniam, 2017 First published in India in 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers. |
| kargil from surprise to victory book free download: Four Miles to Freedom Faith Johnston, 2013-12-04 When Flight Lieutenant Dilip Parulkar was shot down over Pakistan on 10 December 1971, he quickly turned that catastrophe into the greatest adventure of his life. On 13 August 1972, Parulkar, along with Malvinder Singh Grewal and Harish Sinhji, escaped from a POW camp in Rawalpindi. Four Miles to Freedom is their story. Based on interviews with eight Indian fighter pilots who helped prepare the escape and the two who escaped, as well as research into other sources, Four Miles is also the moving, sometimes amusing, account of how twelve fighter pilots from different ranks and backgrounds coped with deprivation, forced intimacy, and the pervasive uncertainty of a year in captivity, and how they came together to support Parulkar’s courageous escape plan. |
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| kargil from surprise to victory book free download: Full Spectrum Arjun Subramaniam, 2020-10-08 The armed forces have played a key role in protecting India's sovereignty and raising its stature as a stable democracy and responsible regional power. Though the nation's soldiers, sailors and airmen occupy a special place in people's hearts, standard narratives of contemporary Indian history rarely cover the military dimension. In his first book, India's Wars: A Military History, 1947-1971, Arjun Subramaniam attempted to set this right by taking readers on a journey until the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971.Full Spectrum: India's Wars, 1972-2020 takes the story forward. It is a sweeping account of war and conflict in contemporary India over the past five decades. Covering every major operation that the armed forces have participated in -- including insurgencies in the north-east, terrorism and proxy wars in Jammu and Kashmir, separatist violence in Punjab, the IPKF intervention in Sri Lanka, and the continued stress along the LoC and LAC -- it fuses the strategic, operational, tactical and human dimensions of war and conflict into a racy narrative that reflects their changing character in modern times. |
| kargil from surprise to victory book free download: Letters from Kargil Diksha Dwivedi, 2017 In May 1999, India was invaded by Pakistan in Kargil, Ladakh, in a surprise attack. Diksha Dwivedi's father was one of the martyrs of that war. In this extremely moving book, she tells the story of the Kargil war through the letters and diaries of her father and other soldiers who fought there. |
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| kargil from surprise to victory book free download: In the Line of Fire Pervez Musharraf, 2006-09-26 According to Time magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds the world's most dangerous job. He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri. Long locked in a deadly embrace with its nuclear neighbor India, Pakistan has come close to full-scale war on two occasions since it first exploded a nuclear bomb in 1998. As President Musharraf struggles for the security and political future of his nation, the stakes could not be higher for the world at large. It is unprecedented for a sitting head of state to write a memoir as revelatory, detailed, and gripping as In the Line of Fire. Here, for the first time, readers can get a firsthand view of the war on terror in its central theater. President Musharraf details the manhunts for Osama and Zawahiri and their top lieutenants, complete with harrowing cat-and-mouse games, informants, interceptions, and bloody firefights. He tells the stories of the near-miss assassination attempts, not only against himself but against Shaukut Aziz (later elected prime minister) and one of his top army officers (later the vice chief of army staff), and of the abduction and beheading of Daniel Pearl -- as well as the forensic and shoe-leather investigations that uncovered the perpetrators. He details the army's mountain operations that have swept several valleys clean, and he talks about the areas of North Waziristan where al Qaeda is still operating. Yet the war on terror is just one of the many headline-making subjects in In the Line of Fire. The full story of the events that brought President Musharraf to power in 1999 is told for the first time. He reveals new details of the 1999 confrontation with India in Kashmir (the Kargil conflict) and offers a proposal for resolving the Kashmir dispute. He offers a portrait of Mullah Omar, with stories of Pakistan's attempts to negotiate with him. Concerning A. Q. Khan and his proliferation network, he explains what the government knew and when it knew it, and he reveals fascinating details of Khan's operations and the investigations into them. In addition, President Musharraf takes many stances that will make news. He calls for the Muslim world to recognize Israel once a viable Palestinian state is created. He urges the repeal of Pakistan's 1979 Hudood law. He calls for the emancipation of women and for their full political equality with men. He tells the sad story of Pakistan's experience with democracy and what he has done to make it workable. |
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| kargil from surprise to victory book free download: Perception, Politics and Security in South Asia P R Chari, Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, Stephen P Cohen, 2003-09-02 This book provides a detailed examination of the compound crisis between India and Pakistan that brought the region to the brink of a nuclear war in 1990. Placing the crisis in the context of concurrent international events such as the fall of the Soviet Union, the authors draw out the lesson for present-day South Asian affairs. The book also makes a significant contribution to the debates on the role of nuclear weapons, confidence and security building strategies and the place of ethnicity in contemporary international relations. |
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| kargil from surprise to victory book free download: A Soldier's Diary Harinder Baweja, 2000 |
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Kargil War - Wikipedia
The Kargil War, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Ladakh, then part of the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir and along …
Kargil War (1999) | Significance, Outcome, Kashmir, Pakistan,
Jun 2, 2025 · The Kargil War was a conflict in May–July 1999 between Pakistan and India in Kargil, a sector of the disputed Kashmir region located along the line of control demarcating …
Kargil: The forgotten victims of the world's highest war - BBC
Jul 26, 2019 · Twenty years ago, a tactical operation ordered secretly by Pakistan's generals to occupy heights in Kargil on the Indian side flared into a war they...
Kargil War - New World Encyclopedia
The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, signifies an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir.
20 years of Kargil war: India, Pakistan remain tense over Kashmir
Jul 26, 2019 · Kargil, India-administered Kashmir – Visitors to Drass, a town situated at an altitude of 10,760 feet (3,279 metres) in India-administered Kashmir, are greeted with a signboard that …
The Kargil War: A Battle Over Kashmir - India Today
Aug 7, 2024 · The Kargil War in 1999 was a direct result of the long-standing dispute between India and Pakistan over the control of Kashmir. Since their partition in 1947, both countries …
About District | District Kargil, Union Territory of Ladakh | India
Jun 9, 2025 · Kargil is one of the two Districts of Ladakh region and is the second largest town of Ladakh and is situated roughly at equal distance (200KM) from Srinagar, Leh , Padum …
The 1999 Kargil Conflict: A Shift in US-India Relations - Brookings
Jul 24, 2019 · The Kargil war between May and July 1999, part of the broader conflict between India and Pakistan over the region of Kashmir, was a seminal turning point in American foreign …
Kargil War Anniversary: Army Retraces Heroic Ascent to Tololing …
3 days ago · Kargil Tribute: Indian Army soldiers and IAF personnel scale Tololing to honour the 1999 battle's fallen heroes ahead of Kargil Vijay Diwas.
Remembered For 1999 India-Pakistan War, Today Kargil Is A …
May 13, 2025 · For the unversed, Kargil was the epicentre of the 1999 Kargil War - a fierce battle between India and Pakistan that got global attention. For years, Kargil evoked images of …
Kargil War - Wikipedia
The Kargil War, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Ladakh, then part of the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir and along the …
Kargil War (1999) | Significance, Outcome, Kashmir, Pakistan,
Jun 2, 2025 · The Kargil War was a conflict in May–July 1999 between Pakistan and India in Kargil, a sector of the disputed Kashmir region located along the line of control demarcating …
Kargil: The forgotten victims of the world's highest war - BBC
Jul 26, 2019 · Twenty years ago, a tactical operation ordered secretly by Pakistan's generals to occupy heights in Kargil on the Indian side flared into a war they...
Kargil War - New World Encyclopedia
The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, signifies an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir.
20 years of Kargil war: India, Pakistan remain tense over Kashmir
Jul 26, 2019 · Kargil, India-administered Kashmir – Visitors to Drass, a town situated at an altitude of 10,760 feet (3,279 metres) in India-administered Kashmir, are greeted with a signboard that …
The Kargil War: A Battle Over Kashmir - India Today
Aug 7, 2024 · The Kargil War in 1999 was a direct result of the long-standing dispute between India and Pakistan over the control of Kashmir. Since their partition in 1947, both countries …
About District | District Kargil, Union Territory of Ladakh | India
Jun 9, 2025 · Kargil is one of the two Districts of Ladakh region and is the second largest town of Ladakh and is situated roughly at equal distance (200KM) from Srinagar, Leh , Padum …
The 1999 Kargil Conflict: A Shift in US-India Relations - Brookings
Jul 24, 2019 · The Kargil war between May and July 1999, part of the broader conflict between India and Pakistan over the region of Kashmir, was a seminal turning point in American foreign …
Kargil War Anniversary: Army Retraces Heroic Ascent to Tololing …
3 days ago · Kargil Tribute: Indian Army soldiers and IAF personnel scale Tololing to honour the 1999 battle's fallen heroes ahead of Kargil Vijay Diwas.
Remembered For 1999 India-Pakistan War, Today Kargil Is A …
May 13, 2025 · For the unversed, Kargil was the epicentre of the 1999 Kargil War - a fierce battle between India and Pakistan that got global attention. For years, Kargil evoked images of …
