Disastrous Twilight: A Personal Record of the Partition of India

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L. Cooper, 1986 - Great Britain - 364 pages
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Disastrous twilight: a personal record of the partition of India

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Hamid's journal reports the actions and attitudes of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, commander-in-chief of the Indian army during the 18 months preceding the 1947 partition of India. As ... Read full review

Contents

The Political Stalemate
3
The Indian National Army
9
The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
23
The NorthWest Frontier
29
I
35
August 1946
84
September 1946
93
October 1946
110
July 1947
197
August 1947
217
August 1947
243
February 1947
257
October 1947
265
November 1947
281
Epilogue
289
Memorandum by the CommanderinChief on the First
303

May 1947
166
June 1947
175
January 1947
187
The Military Implication of Pakistan
334
156
355
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