Derring-do in the line of duty

In Mission Overseas, Sushant Singh describes three foreign military operations

Ajai Shukla  February 27, 2017 Last Updated at 22:41 IST

DEFEAT IS AN ORPHAN Mission Overseas: Daring Operations by the Indian Military Sushant Singh Juggernaut Books, 2017 191 pages; Rs 299 Astonishingly for a country that has witnessed numerous military conflicts since its independence in 1947, India has no official histories of any of these crucial events. In the early 1990s, a government-appointed team of historians painstakingly compiled histories of India’s four major wars (1947-48, 1962, 1965 and 1971), but the planned release in 1993 was blocked at the last moment by an overly sensitive government that worried ...

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Derring-do in the line of duty