01639nam a22002177a 4500 20220714102614.0 220714b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780140285239 AL English 23 954.04 MANG D R Mankekar 49068 Guilty Men of 1962 New Delhi Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd 1998 184 p. PB 20x12 cm. ₹ ₹200.00 The Sino-Indian War of 1962 ended with China declaring a unilateral ceasefire after inflicting a humiliating defeat on the Indian armed forces along the North-Eastern frontier. In this compelling expose of India's debacle in the war, D.R. Mankekar reveals how the country bungled in guarding its interests in the frontier dispute with China, tracing the mistakes that were made at the highest levels of government in responding to the Chinese incursions across our borders. He highlights also the systematic approach of the Chinese to the issues at stake in contrast to the psychological and military unpreparedness that characterized the Indian effort, and graphically recreates key events of the war, like the storming of the 'impregnable' fort of Towang in Tse-la, to which Chinese gained access by using an old and out-of-use railway route. A riveting account of the war that forced India to take stock of its defence priorities, The Guilty Men of 1962 is just as relevant today, in the post-Pokharan II scenario, as when it was written thirty years ago. Sino-Indian Border Dispute 1957 49069 MANKEKAR (D R) 49070 ddc GF 223757 223757 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-23 0 954.04 MANG GF00372 2022-07-14 00:00:00 2022-07-14 GF 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-23 0 954.04 MANG GF00373 2022-07-14 00:00:00 2022-07-14 GF