| Contents |
Maps -- Authors' Note -- Prologue : Blackout -- Act I : The Vortex -- 1. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad -- 2. Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan -- 3. Candy Rohde -- 4. Yahya Khan -- 5. Neil Frank -- 6. Yahya Khan and General Rani -- 7. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad -- 8. Mohammad Hai -- 9. Candy Rohde -- 10. Mohammad Hai -- 11. Candy Rohde -- 12. Mohammad Hai -- 13. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad -- 14. Yahya Khan -- 15. Candy Rohde -- 16. Neil Frank -- 17. Mohammad Hai -- 18. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad and Yahya Khan -- 19. Candy Rohde -- 20. Mohammad Hai -- 21. Jon Rohde, Mohammad Hai, and Candy Rohde -- 22. Neil Frank -- 23. Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto -- 24. Mohammad Hai and Yahya Khan -- Intermission : Yahya Khan and Tikka Khan -- |
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Act II : Operation Searchlight -- 25. Yahya Khan -- 26. Mohammad Hai and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -- 27. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad -- 28. Tikka Khan -- 29. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad -- 30. Yahya Khan, Tikka Khan, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto -- 31. Candy Rohde and Jon Rohde -- 32. Yahya Khan and Tikka Khan -- 33. Candy Rohde and Jon Rohde -- 34. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad -- 35. Candy Rohde, Jon Rohde, and Richard Nixon -- 36. Mohammad Hai -- 37. Yahya Khan, Tikka Khan, and A. A. K. Niazi -- 38. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad and Mohammad Hai -- 39. Candy Rohde -- 40. Yahya Khan and Henry Kissinger -- 41. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad -- Musical Interlude: Ravi Shankar, George Harrison, Richard Nixon, and Henry Kissinger |
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Act III : The Reckoning -- 42. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad -- 43 Mohammad Hai -- 44. Candy Rohde and Jon Rohde -- 45. A. A. K. Niazi and Tikka Khan -- 46. Mohammad Hai and Malik Mahmud -- 47. Yahya Khan and Richard Nixon -- 48 A. A. K. Niazi and Yayha Khan -- 49. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad -- 50. Yahya Khan and Richard Nixon -- 51. Captain Ernest Tissot and Rear Admiral Vladimir Kruglyakov -- 52. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Yahya Khan, and Henry Kissinger -- 53. Richard Nixon -- 54 A. A K. Niazi and Yahya Khan -- 55. Rear Admiral Kruglyakov and Richard Nixon -- 56. A. A. K. Niazi, Richard Nixon, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Hafiz Uddin Ahmad -- 57. Mohammad Hai and Malik Mahmud -- 58. Candy Rohde and Jon Rohde -- 59. Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto -- 60. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto -- 61. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad -- 62. Mohammad Hai and Malik Mahmud -- 63. Neil Frank -- 64. Richard Nixon and Zhou Enlai -- Afterword: The Gathering Storm |
| Abstract |
This fast-paced, meticulously detailed book tells the story of the Great Bhola Cyclone, the deadliest storm in modern history, which killed 500,000 people in Pakistan, and its aftermath as told through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it. |
| Summary |
November 1970. Over the course of just a few hours, the Great Bhola Cyclone would kill 500,000 people and begin a chain reaction of turmoil, genocide, and war. The cyclone made landfall when Pakistan was on the brink of a historic election. The fallout ignited a conflagration of political intrigue, corruption, violence, idealism, and bravery that played out in the lives of tens of millions of Bangladeshis. Carney and Miklian take us deep into the cyclone and its aftermath, told through the eyes of the men and women who lived through it, including the infamous president of Pakistan, General Yahya Khan, and his close friend Richard Nixon. The storm ripped Pakistan in two--and led the world to the brink of nuclear war. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [425]-479) and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9780062985415 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0062985418 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780062985422 paperback |
| ISBN | 0062985426 paperback |
