{"product_id":"the-blood-telegram-nixon-kissinger-and-a-forgotten-genocide","title":"The Blood Telegram: Nixon  Kissinger  and a Forgotten Genocide","description":"\u003cp\u003eA riveting historythe first full accountof 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 Pakistans 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 Indiaone 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 Pakistans 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 militaryan 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 groundfrom 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 Asias destiny for decades  and confronts for the first time Nixon and Kissingers 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945981505589,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307700208","price":33.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307700209.jpg?v=1769917593","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-blood-telegram-nixon-kissinger-and-a-forgotten-genocide","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}