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  • The War that Made R&AW 

    by Anusha Nandakumar, Sandeep Saket ...
    Two events in the 1960s underlined the urgent need to restructure and revitalise India’s Intelligence system: the 1962 war against China, and the one against Pakistan in 1965, both shocking instances of failures in information gathering. The officer who would be given charge of this task was R.N. Kao—someone as unlike romanticised ideals of spies in films and novels as possible.The founder-chief ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Spy Chronicles

    RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace

    by A.S. Dulat, Asad Durrani, Aditya Sinha ...
    Pointing to the horizon where the sea and sky are joined, he says, 'It is only an illusion because they can't really meet, but isn't it beautiful, this union which isn't really there.' -- SAADAT HASAN MANTO Sometime in 2016, a series of dialogues took place which set out to find a meeting ground, even if only an illusion, between A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani. One was a former chief of RAW, India's ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • In the Line of Fire

    A Memoir

    by Pervez Musharraf ...
    According to Time magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri. Long locked in a deadly embrace with its nuclear neighbor India, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Kashmir

    The Vajpayee Years

    by A.S. with Sinha, Aditya Dulat ...
    Vajpayee PMO member's account of the quest for peace in a troubled stateThere comes a day in one's life when one feels it should all be put down before memory fades. There are endless memories and I have carried a story with me for a long time. SRINAGAR IN THE WINTER OF 1989 was an eerie ghost town witnessing the beginnings of a war dance. The dam burst the night boys from the separatist JKLF ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • India and Pakistan

    Continued Conflict or Cooperation?

    by Stanley Wolpert ...
    Beginning in 1947, when "India and Pakistan were born to conflict," renowned India scholar Stanley Wolpert provides an authoritative, accessible primer on what is potentially the world's most dangerous crisis. He concisely distills sixty-three years of complex history, tracing the roots of the relationship between these two antagonists, explaining the many attempts to resolve their disputes, and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Kargil-From Surprise TO Victory

    by V.P. Malik ...
    In February 1999, Pakistani Army personnel, disguised as jihadi militants, infiltrated into mountainous Kargil and occupied key vantage points. Their intrusion triggered a limited war between the world's newest nuclear states. It was a bitter battle, and one that threw up important lessons for India's defence preparedness, as also its responses to conflicts such as this. This incisive book by ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Longest August

    The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan

    by Dilip Hiro ...
    The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims on the other. More than 750,000 people were butchered, and 12 million fled their homes -- primarily in caravans of bullock-carts -- to seek refuge across the new border: it was the largest exodus in history. Sixty-seven ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Midnight's Borders

    A People's History of Modern India

    by Suchitra Vijayan ...
    A Booklist "Top 10 History Book of 2022"The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested bordersSharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the world's biggest crisis of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • The Burning Shores

    Inside the Battle for the New Libya

    by Frederic Wehrey ...
    A riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi's tyrannical reign.The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic migrant crisis.In a fast-paced narrative that blends frontline ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • War Against the Taliban

    Why It All Went Wrong in Afghanistan

    by Sandy Gall ...
    Afghanistan's strategically significant lands have long been fought over by foreign invaders. Today, as yet another generation risks life and limb in this inhospitable territory, an ever-rising death toll puts back under the spotlight the way the modern war in Afghanistan is being run, and demands answers. Drawing on interviews with Afghan politicians, businessmen and ordinary people, British, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Pakistan

    At the Helm

    by Tilak Devasher ...
    Fascinating vignettes about the men and woman who ruled PakistanWhat did Muhammad Ali Jinnah say when he received a royal salute from the last British regiment about to leave Pakistan? Did Ayub Khan consider turning Pakistan into a monarchy? Why was Yahya Khan so confident that the 1970 elections would return a hung parliament? What did Zulfikar Ali Bhutto say when the Pakistan Army launched a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Faith, Unity, Discipline

    The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan

    by Hein Kiessling ...
    Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by the Australian army officer Major-General Walter Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an under-developed and obscure agency. In 1979, the organisation's growing importance was felt during the Soviet war in Afghanistan , as it worked hand in glove ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD