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The Blood Telegram

By: Gary J Bass

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In 1971, the Pakistani army launched a devastating crackdown on what was then East Pakistan (today’s independent Bangladesh), killing thousands of people and sending ten million refugees fleeing into India. The events also sparked the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War. Drawing on recently declassified documents, unheard White House tapes, and meticulous investigative reporting, Gary Bass gives us an unprecedented chronicle of the break-up of Pakistan, and India’s role in it. This is the pathbreaking account of India’s real motives, the build-up to the war, and the secret decisions taken by Indira Gandhi and her closest advisers. This book is also the story of how two of the world’s great democracies—India and the United States—dealt with one of the most terrible humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Gary Bass writes a revealing account of how the Bangladeshis became collateral damage in the great game being played by America and China, with Pakistan as the unlikely power broker. The United States’ embrace of the military dictatorship in Islamabad would affect geopolitics for decades, beginning a pattern of American anti-democratic engagement in Pakistan that went back far beyond General Musharraf. The Blood Telegram is a revelatory and compelling work, essential reading for anyone interested in the recent history of our region.

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8184004834

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Judgement at Tokyo

World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

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Judgement at Tokyo

World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

‘A work of singular importance . . . balanced, original, human, accessible, and riveting’ – Philippe Sands, author of East-West Street. From the prizewinning author of the acclaimed The Blood Telegram, a landmark, magisterial history of the postwar trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals – and their impact on the modern history of Asia and the world. In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the victorious powers turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. To them, it was clear that Japan’s militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for their crimes. For the Allied powers, the trials were an opportunity both to render judgment on their vanquished foes and to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of aggressive war. For the Japanese leaders on trial, it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was no more than victors’ justice. Gary J. Bass' Judgement at Tokyo is the product of a decade of research, a magnificent, riveting story of wartime action, dramatic courtroom battles, and the epic formative years that set the stage for the postwar era in the Asia–Pacific.

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Picador

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1761560689

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Freedom's Battle

The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

By: Gary J. Bass

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Freedom's Battle

The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

By: Gary J. Bass

This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action by exposing them to distant atrocities. Wildly romantic and full of bizarre enthusiasms, these activists were pioneers of a new political consciousness. And their legacy has much to teach us about today’s human rights crises.

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Vintage

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0307269299

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9780307269294

The Blood Telegram

India's Secret War in East Pakistan

By: Gary J Bass

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The Blood Telegram

India's Secret War in East Pakistan

By: Gary J Bass

This magnificent history provides an unprecedented chronicle of the 1971 break-up of Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh. Drawing on unheard White House tapes, recently declassified documents, and investigative reporting, Gary Bass uncovers the astonishing events which led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left major strategic consequences for the subcontinent today. This is a pathbreaking account of India’s real motives and the secret decisions taken by Indira Gandhi and her closest advisers. Revelatory, authoritative, and compulsively readable, The Blood Telegram is a thrilling chronicle of a pivotal chapter in South Asia’s history.

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9353051851

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Freedom's Battle

The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

By: Gary J. Bass

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The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

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Judgment at Tokyo

World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

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Judgment at Tokyo

World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST • 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER • 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AND AIR MAIL • 10 ESSENTIAL BOOKS BY THE TELEGRAPH • THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • THE OBSERVER AND THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK • MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE FINALIST • BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE LONGLIST • CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE SHORTLIST • A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg “Nothing less than a masterpiece. With epic research and mesmerizing narrative power, Judgment at Tokyo has the makings of an instant classic.” —Evan Osnos, National Book Award–winning author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, and their fellow victors, the question of justice seemed clear: Japan’s militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; shocking atrocities against civilians in China, the Philippines, and elsewhere; and rampant abuses of prisoners of war in notorious incidents such as the Bataan death march. For the Allied powers, the trial was an opportunity to render judgment on their vanquished foes, but also to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of aggressive war, building a more peaceful world under international law and American hegemony. For the Japanese leaders on trial, it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was victors’ justice. For more than two years, lawyers for both sides presented their cases before a panel of clashing judges from China, India, the Philippines, and Australia, as well as the United States and European powers. The testimony ran from horrific accounts of brutality and the secret plans to attack Pearl Harbor to the Japanese military’s threats to subvert the government if it sued for peace. Yet rather than clarity and unanimity, the trial brought complexity, dissents, and divisions that provoke international discord between China, Japan, and Korea to this day. Those courtroom tensions and contradictions could also be seen playing out across Asia as the trial unfolded in the crucial early years of the Cold War, from China’s descent into civil war to Japan’s successful postwar democratic elections to India’s independence and partition. From the author of the acclaimed The Blood Telegram, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, this magnificent history is the product of a decade of research and writing. Judgment at Tokyo is a riveting story of wartime action, dramatic courtroom battles, and the epic formative years that set the stage for the Asian postwar era.

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110194711X

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The Blood Telegram

Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

By: Gary J. Bass

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The Blood Telegram

Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

By: Gary J. Bass

A riveting history—the first full account—of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left in their wake a host of major strategic consequences for the world today. 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. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported Pakistan’s military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results of a historic free election. The Pakistani army launched a crackdown on what was then East Pakistan (today an independent Bangladesh), killing hundreds of thousands of people and sending ten million refugees fleeing to India—one of the worst humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Nixon and Kissinger, unswayed by detailed warnings of genocide from American diplomats witnessing the bloodshed, stood behind Pakistan’s military rulers. Driven not just by Cold War realpolitik but by a bitter personal dislike of India and its leader Indira Gandhi, Nixon and Kissinger actively helped the Pakistani government even as it careened toward a devastating war against India. They silenced American officials who dared to speak up, secretly encouraged China to mass troops on the Indian border, and illegally supplied weapons to the Pakistani military—an overlooked scandal that presages Watergate. 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. 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 Oval Office. Bass makes clear how the United States’ embrace of the military dictatorship in Islamabad would mold Asia’s destiny for decades, and confronts for the first time Nixon and Kissinger’s hidden role in a tragedy that was far bloodier than Bosnia. This is a revelatory, compulsively readable work of politics, personalities, military confrontation, and Cold War brinksmanship.

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0385350473

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Progressive Electronic Keyboard Method - Book 1

Teach Yourself How to Play Electronic Keyboard (Free Online Video & Audio)

By: Muzician.com,Gary Turner,Andrew Scott

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Teach Yourself How to Play Electronic Keyboard (Free Online Video & Audio)

By: Muzician.com,Gary Turner,Andrew Scott

For beginner electronic keyboard players. Suitable for all electronic keyboards, this course uses well-known songs to teach music reading and playing. Also shows the student how to use the various functions on their keyboard and contains many well-known songs.

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982532662X

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Zoological Catalogue of Australia

By: Gary C. B. Poore

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Zoological Catalogue of Australia

By: Gary C. B. Poore

The published works are derived from the Zoological catalogue of Australia database. Taxa in the Australian fauna are divided among volumes to form sets of about 1800-2000 species available names, such that each volume comprises the whole or part of one or more major groups.

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0643069011

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9780643069015

Stay the Hand of Vengeance

The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals

By: Gary Jonathan Bass

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Stay the Hand of Vengeance

The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals

By: Gary Jonathan Bass

International justice has become a crucial part of the ongoing political debates about the future of shattered societies like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Chile. Why do our governments sometimes display such striking idealism in the face of war crimes and atrocities abroad, and at other times cynically abandon the pursuit of international justice altogether? Why today does justice seem so slow to come for war crimes victims in the Balkans? In this book, Gary Bass offers an unprecedented look at the politics behind international war crimes tribunals, combining analysis with investigative reporting and a broad historical perspective. The Nuremberg trials powerfully demonstrated how effective war crimes tribunals can be. But there have been many other important tribunals that have not been as successful, and which have been largely left out of today's debates about international justice. This timely book brings them in, using primary documents to examine the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, the Armenian genocide, World War II, and the recent wars in the former Yugoslavia. Bass explains that bringing war criminals to justice can be a military ordeal, a source of endless legal frustration, as well as a diplomatic nightmare. The book takes readers behind the scenes to see vividly how leaders like David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton have wrestled with these agonizing moral dilemmas. The book asks how law and international politics interact, and how power can be made to serve the cause of justice. Bass brings new archival research to bear on such events as the prosecution of the Armenian genocide, presenting surprising episodes that add to the historical record. His sections on the former Yugoslavia tell--with important new discoveries--the secret story of the politicking behind the prosecution of war crimes in Bosnia, drawing on interviews with senior White House officials, key diplomats, and chief prosecutors at the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Bass concludes that despite the obstacles, legalistic justice for war criminals is nonetheless worth pursuing. His arguments will interest anyone concerned about human rights and the pursuit of idealism in international politics.

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Princeton University Press

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1400851718

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9781400851713

Visions of Jazz

The First Century

By: Gary Giddins

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Visions of Jazz

The First Century

By: Gary Giddins

On jazz and jazz players

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Oxford University Press

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0195132416

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Hoover's Handbook of American Business 2003

By: Gary Hoover,Hoover's

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Hoover's Handbook of American Business 2003

By: Gary Hoover,Hoover's

Profiles include overview, history, officers, locations, products/operations, competitors, and historical financials & employees.

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1573110817

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Progressive Guitar - Left Handed Edition

Teach Yourself How to Play Guitar (Free Online Video & Audio)

By: Muzician.com,Gary Turner,Peter Gelling

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Progressive Guitar - Left Handed Edition

Teach Yourself How to Play Guitar (Free Online Video & Audio)

By: Muzician.com,Gary Turner,Peter Gelling

For beginner left handed guitarists. This course covers notes on all six strings, lead guitar picking technique, rhythm guitar chords and strumming patterns, reading music and basic music theory. Includes many well-known pop, rock, folk and blues songs.

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9825326115

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Progressive Guitar

Teach Yourself How to Play Guitar (Free Online Video & Audio)

By: Muzician.com,Gary Turner,Peter Gelling

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Progressive Guitar

Teach Yourself How to Play Guitar (Free Online Video & Audio)

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For beginner guitarists. This course covers notes on all six strings, lead guitar picking technique, rhythm guitar chords and strumming patterns, reading music and basic music theory. Includes many well-known pop, rock, folk and blues songs.

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9825326085

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Judgment at Tokyo

World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

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World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

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Progressive Electronic Keyboard Method - Book 1

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Zoological Catalogue of Australia

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