Back in the 1960s, BM Kaul defied the army's tradition of secrecy with his books The Untold Story and Confrontation with Pakistan, incurring the wrath of the establishment. Now, his nephew Col Anil Kaul relates in a raw yet sensitive manner how, despite being honoured with a Vir Chakra - or because of it - he had to fight every inch of the way to continue to serve his country with dignity after being wounded in the IPKF operation in Sri Lanka in 1987. The reader ...