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 Army
12
The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
23
The NorthWest Frontier
29
March 1946
35
April 1946
48
May 1946
59
June 1946
71
December 1946
119
February 1947
132
March 1947
139
April 1947
156
August 1947
217
August 1947
243
Epilogue
297
Memorandum by the CommanderinChief on the First
303

July 1946
79
August 1946
91
September 1946
99
October 1946
106
November 1946
112
Division of the Armed Forces
324
The Military Implication of Pakistan
334
Massacres in Punjab
344
Index
355
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