With a foreword by the great Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw PV, PB, MC, one may expect only the very best. So it is with this gripping on-scene account of the controversial operation carried out, at Government’ request, by the Indian Peacekeeping Force during 1987 and 1988 in Sri Lanka. Who better to write it than the overall force commander of the IPKF himself! The general lay-out of Sri-Lanka and its many peoples neatly sets the scene for the ...
This book is an authoritative and gripping account of the most controversial campaign undertaken by the Indian Army, an operation universally acclaimed at its commencement and just as widely criticised a few months later. The foreword is by one of India’s most prominent citizens, Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Military Cross. The introductory chapters are devoted to the land and the people of Sri Lanka, the genesis of the ethnic ...
At last we may all enjoy reading Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw's emphasis on his term as Chief of the Army Staff. Who could write a more detailed account than his Military Assistant, always at his side throughout those tempestuous years. What shines through is a splendid portrait of a man with vision, competence, compassion and courage. Manekshaw's candid style helped him develop an instant rapport with his troops and he was thus able to hold the morale of those ...