Aleph Book Company 1965 A WESTERN SUNRISE INDIA'S WAR WITH PAKISTAN

A very good book on 1965 Indo Pak war.. It was not a single war but a series of skirmishes resulting in full fledged war.. Have gone thru more that three fourth of it till now. Evrery thing becomes clear..as you go thru the book. Needs two or three readings of the book to have a clear picture in mind. Not only author has described all the information he could get his hands on to let the reader keep as much he wants..but he has also gone venting his opinion about it too .... which may not necessarily be true and correct. Things have not been described chronologically in every front of the war..but certainly that is not possible too to describe this skirmish which had a broad frame in time and place. Since the description is often exhaustive..author would have done more justice to his effort if he would have attached relevant maps at relevent places of the book. Though some of the pictures are welcome .. those "sketch photographs"are completely unnecessary and does not add to the value at all...instead he should have attached more maps so that reader could relate and understand thereby would have enjoyed the book more.. I intend to finish it soon .but will have to give a second reading at least to have an exhaustive grasp and understanding of the war . It is a treatise by the author after his equally good book on 1962 India china war.. I expect a similar book 1971 war from this author...but with more maps at the relevent places . Apart from the book I mentioned author has in its name another book by the name of Siachen..but that book is entirly different from these two books by the same author I mentioned hitherto...so much so that many may make a conclusion of that being from a diffrent author(I had erred in that). Former two books deal entirely with the subject proper, though quality of the paper and photographers leaves much to be desired while the later one beats about the bush completly not concentrating on the subject. But the quality of writing, printing, paper and photographs were superb Of course in this book as well as on the 1962 war we would have welcomed if it was published using some what good paper and more maps at the relevant places..

A master story teller authoritatively brings alive the 1965 operations in its full glory. An articulate vivid overview of the Indian forces- their strategic overlay and the tactical ops brilliantly researched and documented for the reader!! ...thoroughly enjoyed your style of writing-immersive, articulate,informative with realistic insights. Great easy layout,interesting photographs and great command over how the events unfold...operational description of commanders at all levels leading their men valiantly makes one feel being part of the war as the author makes it come alive all around Thank you for sharing your fascinating research !! Looking forward to your next block buster....

This is a phenomenal book on the war in 65 and covers great details. However the Author seems fairly negatively biased towards Gen Harbaksh Singh and has tried to build a story towards that. Author continently fails to ignore the huge role played in saving Amritsar which Gen Chowdhry was ready to give away!! Further the role played by inspiring and hence the turn around during battle of Assal Uttar is also not mentioned. Failings of Gen Prasad have been tried to be sugar coated for unknown reasons. It would have been great if the author would have interviewed Gen Harbaksh Singh for some of the decisions specifically lack of IAF support, which might have been Gen Chowdhry doing Towards the end I just stopped reading due to hugely negative bias I found. Otherwise would have given this book 5 stars

Before buying the book, I saw in the review that someone had written that the author is negative towards General Harbakhsh but after reading the book I can say that there is nothing like that. Whatever the author wrote was very true and without any discrimination. The author has torn everyone's clothes and has also praised them for good work. I cannot even imagine that a lot of hard work must have gone into writing this book. I am waiting for the author's next book of 1971.

Artillery and Armour were short. IAF was not consulted in the beginning and later as well