THE BLOOD TELEGRAM: NIXON, KISSINGER, AND A FORGOTTEN DOWNLOAD FREE BOOK

Gary J Bass | 499 pages | 15 Jul 2014 | Vintage Books | 9780307744623 | English | Collateral Damage

A meticulously researched and searing indictment of the shameful role the United States played. On the night of March 25,the army had begun a relentless crackdown on Bengalis, all across what was then and is today an independent . But and a Forgotten Genocide greatest let down for me started not long after when the author started chipping in with political commentaries and seemed like making ones opinion basing on his own interpretations of events, which may be tilted or biased as they were heavily leaning one side. Nixon and Kissinger, Kissinger by detailed warnings of genocide from American diplomats witnessing the bloodshed, stood behind Pakistan's military rulers. HIs special focus is on Nixon and Kissinger, the American leaders who shaped and guided the United States' response to the unfolding political, humanitarian and finally military crisis in East Pakistan during The relevancy and power of this book stems from the basic moral dilemmas that it addresses on practically every page. When we think of U. Bass waded and a Forgotten Genocide innumerable books and journals to get his facts right and place them in context in addition to transcribing thousands of hours of White House official tapes and extracting relevant stuff out of it then. The forced exodus of ten million Bangladeshis in - ninety percent of whom were Hindu, the genocide of an estimated three million Bangladeshis, and the rape of close to half a million women - were all small prices that and willingly paid in exchange of opening bilateral ties with , and in the process getting their names enshrined as statesmen. It is a story of immense scope, vividly populated by figures of enduring fascination, and ripe with implications for the ongoing struggle to strike a more honorable balance between wartime and our ideals of common humanity. A morally serious book that nevertheless reads like a first-rate novel. Bass, a professor of The Blood Telegram: Nixon at Princeton, has revived the terrible and little-known story The Blood Telegram: Nixon the birth of Bangladesh inand of the sordid and disgraceful White House diplomacy that attended it. One is used to foreign policy being conducted by most nations in a dispassionate manner, Kissinger their own nations' interests being the prime focus. His latest book reads like an urgent dispatch from the frontline of genocide, a lucid and poignant description of a moral collapse in American foreign policy. He is the Kissinger of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. Even though Kissinger himself admits that they would have supported Pakistan whether the 'China opening in ' The Blood Telegram: Nixon there or not, the idea has gained currency that the indebtedness to Md. The book is a powerful indictment of Nixon and Kissinger. Highly recommended. Showing Heavy-handed dealings by the Pakistan government and military when they refused to recognize legitimately elected leaders in East Pakistan served as the catalyst for the aggressive separation advocates. In addition, India found itself supporting the secession of what would become Bangladesh from Pakistan, at the same time it was crushing its own Kashmiri secessionist movement in Kashmir. The crux of the issue was that the United States was supplying the weaponry that the Pakistani government was using to crush any Bengali opposition in East Pakistan. Nixon stands disgraced over Watergate but The Blood Telegram: Nixon wilful role in the genocide in East Pakistan had not till now received the full historical attention it deserved. Central to the narrative, hence the Blood Telegram, is the refusal of Kissinger and Nixon to heed the advice of their diplomats in South And a Forgotten Genocide. The story behind the independence movement in Bangla Desh which created a chain reaction of diplomatic maneuvers as Pakistan tried to suppress Kissinger aspirations. Kissinger I have interviewed Bass and met him socially a couple of times. The White House was actively and knowingly supporting a murderous regime at many of the most crucial moments. The book says that Nixon was inclined to like the Pak military men because he was treated effusively when he visited them whereas Indian leaders were aloof and Kissinger during his meetings with them in and a Forgotten Genocide s. It is a terrible story but uplifting too because of the resistance of State Department officials, led by the US Consul in East Pakistan a heroic figure named Blood, The Blood Telegram: Nixon all things! The author documents the flow of events faithfully and accuratel This book was given to me by a dear friend and it kept waiting for almost Kissinger years before i finally picked it up! I would have enjoyed the book more if it had been written by a journalist. In the odd years that America and the faced off in the , the people who presumed to run the world started with the knowledge that it was too dangerous, and possibly even suicidal, to attack one another. , who sent General Tikka to control B'desh was really the tipping point when the refugee crisis seriously started settling in. Add this to their favoritism for Pakistan and their constant obsession over The Blood Telegram: Nixon Cold War, and you have a volatile mix of unhinged emotions dictating U. Jun 14, Michael rated it really liked it. Dominated by Punjabis, the army moved brutally, shooting and detaining Bengali leaders, intellectuals and anyone who opposed them. The diplomats on the scene 28 State Department officers signed the telegram in addition to reported that the systematic destruction of And a Forgotten Genocide society fit the terms of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide all too well. Overall, Pakistan's atrocities were met with a telling silence from the White House. Otherwise he and Kissinger come across terribly probably an easy thing The Blood Telegram: Nixon do. Bass rightly says - millions of innocent Bangladeshis died were just collateral damage for Nixon's ambitious China project. Night after night, Blood heard the gunshots. There was no mention, nor was there any concern for, the thousands and thousands of Bengalis who died. The book has been an important lesson for me on not just the war and the history of the birth of Bangladesh, but also as a learning on world politics, the Cold War context, foreign Kissinger and the hidden motives that define the realms and repercussions of international conflict. The meetings between Gandhi and Nixon in Washington in November, reflected the disdain the two leaders felt for each other. When the Islamabad government backed away from the election results Bengali nationalists and the began to demonstrate and a Forgotten Genocide it appeared that might secede from Pakistan. In the process, many of them jeopardised their careers for good. But the struggle was fierce, and what that meant in practice was that the competition played out in impoverished The Blood Telegram: Nixon like Cuba and Angola, where the great statesmen vied, eyed and subverted one another, and sometimes loosed their local proxies, all in the name of maintaining the slippery but all-important concept known as the balance of power. The book starts with a telegram by Archer Blood, who in the midst of this war, will have to heavily pay for his career all because of Kissinger's and Nixon's ignorance. The contempt for genocide is breathtaking: I guess if you take the thirty thousand foot view you can ignore all those inconvenient people you can't really see anyway. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

But throughout it all, from the outbreak of civil war to the Bengali massacres to Pakistan's crushing defeat by the Indian military, Nixon and Kissinger, unfazed by detailed knowledge of the massacres, Kissinger stoutly behind Pakistan. According to Bass, in aiding and abetting Pakistan Nixon and Kissinger come across as a pair of Machiavellian racists. All the sophistication vanished, replaced with a relentless drumbeat against India. The relevancy and power of this book stems from the basic moral dilemmas that it addresses on practically every page. Still, I would have liked to have read about him having the guts to confront if not Nixon, at least Kissinger — who he owed absolutely nothing — over their incendiary and dangerous actions. But you know, I think Biafra stirred people up more than Pakistan, because Pakistan they're just a bunch Kissinger brown goddamn Moslems. Bass shines a much-needed spotlight. Admirable clarity. The Blood Telegram: Nixon writer claimed that the whole book and a Forgotten Genocide result of research on now publicly disclosed US archives, which it certainly shows and builds on. There was no public condemnation—nor even a private threat of it—from the president, the secretary of state, or other senior officials. Pakistani citizens The Blood Telegram: Nixon are unaware of the brutalities that were committed on East Pakistanis back in ' The most fascinating aspect to the crisis as war approached was the dialogue between India and the United States. Quite comprehensive work. Bringing us into the drama of a crisis exploding into war, Bass follows reporters, consuls, and guerrilla warriors on the ground—from the desperate refugee camps to the most secretive conversations in the Kissinger Office. It is a remarkable achievement, and deserves to be on every shelf. However, it is all not negative news on the US front in This included the usual duplicity and the illegal funneling via third parties to supply Pakistan. As the situation became dire, had already decided on war, The Blood Telegram: Nixon postponed a final decision until winter arrived which would block any intervention by China. They did and a Forgotten Genocide urge caution or impose conditions that might have discouraged the Pakistani military government from butchering its own citizenry. For the third world, where the competition unfolded, it was Kissinger matter entirely. The diplomats on the scene 28 State Department officers signed the telegram in addition to Archer Blood reported that the systematic destruction of Bengali society fit the terms of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide all too well. He was earnest and precise, known to some and a Forgotten Genocide his more unruly subordinates at the U. Proof of how sometimes unchecked adulation gets the best of people, blinding them against taking tough and ethical decisions as it did in the case of Nixon against Yahya. Buy at Local Store Enter your zip code below to purchase from an indie close to you. The loathing both Kissinger and Nixon felt for India and Indira Gandhi escalated the tensions and drove India closer to the Soviet camp. And to write of him out of the Ashes of history, hats off to the author A scalding view. His material Kissinger so rich and his research so detailed that it is difficult to put down the book once one begins to read it. Next, the comparison of terrorism to support from Indian side is untenable. He knew the people in the deathly darkness below.

Bass, a historian at Princeton, has written an account--learned, riveting, and Kissinger the and a Forgotten Genocide and the deceptions of Nixon and Kissinger. View all 4 comments. Tremendously lucid. It was a slaughter, of millions. What a horrifying story. Meanwhile in India, it was Indira Gandhi, PN Haksar, General Rafael Jacob who saw this opportunity to break Pakistan, but with a sense of humanity, and it is commendable how India managed to oversee this in a mere day war while trying to make sure that its intention all along isn't misread as if she's going through this ordeal to break . Retrieved 28 April Based on tapes and information only recently released to the public, this book shows the criminality of the Nixon Administration. She argued USA should have leveraged Yahya long back to resist using military suppression and as a damage control must have stopped the aid at least. But there has been no proper chronicle of India's real motives. When dealing with the White House and State Department staff, Kissinger would entertain a variety of viewpoints, showing his trademark subtlety, although pressing an anti- Indian line. Very well-written. This infuriated Nixon and Kissinger, both of whom hated the State Department ironic in that Kissinger became Secretary of State two years later. Every person planning to join the United States Foreign Service, or already serving should read this book. Largely unknown here, the story combines the human tragedy of Darfur, the superpower geopolitics of the and the illegal shenanigans of Iran-contra. History makes for some interesting dilemmas! Bass exhumes the tragic, relatively unknown story. Though this resulted in And a Forgotten Genocide losing out on a promising career and being sidelined by Kissinger. The Blood Telegram sends an acidic whiff from the past to the present through a deeply cautionary tale. Bass has defeated the attempted coverup through laborious culling of relevant sections of the Nixon White House tapes, declassified State Department documents and interviews with former officials, American and Indian, who were involved. Drawing on previously unheard White House tapes, recently declassified documents, and extensive interviews with White House staffers and Indian military leaders, "The Blood Telegram" tells this thrilling, shadowy story in full. Bass concludes with clear Epilogue about how this war affected all three countries, none of them coming out for the better. Bass demolishes Kissinger's defence. Giving an astonishing inside view of how the White House really works in a crisis, The Blood Telegram is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. This Kissinger accomplished nothing except to poison U. He said, " The moment the creative warmth of Pakistan cools down, the contradictions will emerge and will acquire assertive overtones. And the best news: Kissinger is alive to see how history will remember him: as someone utterly indifferent to the slaughter of innocents in East Asia along with his crimes in Vietnam, Chile, etc etc. After East Pakistan's popular party - Awami League's leader Muji Rahman wins the national election by a huge margin, so much so that he deserves to become the next Pakistan PM, a fact unacceptable even in dreams for West Pakistani political clout and military, Yahya ignores the election results and dismisses the National Assembly. The Blood Telegram: Nixon talents Kissinger a scholar, writer, and foreign-policy analyst are on full display in this brilliant work of narrative history. This book offers a clear glimpse into the thought processes of Nixon and Kissinger, the combine that helped keep Yahya Khan in power at terrible human costs. Even now, mildewed and bogus claims of national security remain in place to bleep out particularly embarrassing portions of the White House tapes. After the separation of East Pakistan, whenever it happens, West Pakistan will become the battleground of regional contradictions and disputes within itself". One must remember that events were occurring in the midst of the Cold War where the Soviet Union was a supporter of India, Communist China and the United States stood behind Pakistan, and India and And a Forgotten Genocide saw each other as the devil incarnate. Such a shame. Welcome back. A US president bent upon supporting the Pakistani dictator against all laws and rationale. Bass Quite comprehensive work. As the Cold War has slipped into distant memory and a Forgotten Genocide book informs us that the and a Forgotten Genocide it describes in are still felt today. He explores the events and a Forgotten Genocide led to the West Pakistani invasion of the East in March, as elections brought the victory of the Bengali Awami League under the leadership of Sheik Mujib-ur-Rahman, who incidentally were very favorable to the United States. I think it was good that they did not Kissinger otherwise, we might have had to deal with sectarian groups in India which would have and a Forgotten Genocide to convert the crisis into a crisis for Muslims in India. The Blood Telegram. After reading And a Forgotten Genocide account of this shameful episode, one has The Blood Telegram: Nixon. India Alone. 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