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Name: 1962 The War That Wasn't: The Definitive Account of the Clash Between India and China
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ISBN: 9789382277972

Publisher: Aleph Book

Author(s): Shiv Kunal Verma

Pub Year: 2016

Format: Hardback

Language: English

Pages: 480

Imprint: Aleph Book

On 20 October 1962, on the banks of the fast-flowing Nam Ka Chu, high in the Himalayas, over 400 Indian soldiers were massacred by soldiers of China's People's Liberation Army. Over the course of the next month, nearly 4,000 men were killed on both sides and the Indian Army experienced its worst defeat ever. The conflict (war was never formally declared) ended because China announced a unilateral ceasefire on 21 November and halted its hitherto unhindered advance across NEFA and Ladakh. To add to India's lasting shame, neither Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru nor the Indian Army was even aware that the 'war' had ended until they read about it in the newspapers- despite the Indian embassy having been given the information two days earlier.

The Indo-China conflict of 1962 continues to be one of our least understood historical events. Many books have been written about it, usually by those who were involved in some way, anxious to provide justification for their actions. These accounts have only succeeded in muddying the picture further. What is clear is that 1962 was an unmitigated disaster. The terrain over which most of the battles were fought for not fought) was remote and inaccessible: the troops were sorely underequipped, lacking even warm clothing; and the men and officers who tried to make a stand were repeatedly let down by their political and military superiors. Time and again, in Nam Ka Chu, Bum- la, Tawang, Se-la, Thembang, Bomdila-all in the Kameng Frontier Division of NEFA in the Eastern Sector-and in Ladakh and Chushul in the Western Sector, our forces were mismanaged, misdirected or left to fend for themselves. If the Chinese Army hadn't decided to stop its victorious campaign, thedamage would have been far worse.

In this definitive account of the conflict, based on dozens of interviews with soldiers, officers, support staff, bureaucrats, and numerous others who had a first-hand view of what actually happened in 1962, filmmaker and military historian Shiv Kunal Verma takes us on an uncomfortable journey through one of the most disastrous episodes of independent India's history.

1962 The War That Wasn't: The Definitive Account of the Clash Between India and China

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