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The Brave

Author : Rachna Bisht

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 279 pages

File Size : 42,69 MB

Release : 2014-08-15

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ISBN : 9351188051

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21 riveting stories from the battlefield about how India’s highest military honour was won The Brave takes you to the hearts and minds of India’s bravest soldiers, all of whom won the Param Vir Chakra, India’s greatest military honour. With access to the Army, families and comrades-in-arms of the soldiers, Rachna Bisht Rawat paints the most vivid portrait of these men and their extraordinary deeds. How hard is it to fight at 20,000 feet in sub-zero temperatures? Why did Captain Vikram Batra say ‘Yeh dil maange more’? How do wives and girlfriends of soldiers who don’t return cope? What happens when the enemy is someone that you have trained? How did the Charlie Company push back the marauding Chinese? How did a villager from Uttar Pradesh become a specialist in destroying tanks? Both gripping and inspiring, The Brave is the ultimate book on the Param Vir Chakra.





Somnath Sharma

Author : Ian Cardozo

Publisher :

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 21,7 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Comic books, strips, etc

ISBN : 9788174369239

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An Epic Life

Author : Prem Sagar

Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Page : 333 pages

File Size : 14,66 MB

Release : 2023-05-29

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9357081070

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On 25 January 1987, with the telecast of the very first episode of Ramayan, Indian television changed for all time to come. In a matter of weeks, the series became a national obsession. During the Ramayan slot, roads emptied out. No marriages and political rallies were scheduled for that time. More than three decades later, there has been nothing to match it. Ramanand Sagar, the man behind the phenomenon and a successful filmmaker from Bombay, was among the first to recognise the immense power of television. He first made his mark as a writer in Raj Kapoor's Barsat (1949). From 1961 to 1970, Sagar wrote, produced and directed six consecutive silver jubilee hits-Ghunghat, Zindagi, Arzoo, Ankhen, Geet and Lalkar. An Epic Life: Ramanand Sagar, From Barsaat to Ramayan, written by his son, Prem Sagar, an award-winning cinematographer, is an intimate look at the life of a visionary. It traces Sagar's life from his birth in Kashmir in 1917, his dramatic escape in 1947 when Pakistani tribesmen attacked the state, his arrival in Bombay and his subsequent glorious career-the crowning achievement of which was the smashing success of Ramayan.



"The Russell's Airborne Fraternity 3rd Battalion

Author : Lieutenant Colonel RP Singh

Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers

Page : 417 pages

File Size : 40,68 MB

Release : 2023-05-12

Category : History

ISBN :

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3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment (Special Forces) was raised in March 1813 at Chudderghat ( now Chaderghat) on the banks of the Musi river in Hyderabad under the auspices of Henry Russell as 1stBattalion, The Russell’s Brigade. After having undergone eight name changes since it’s raising it assumed its present name in April 2004. Ever since its raising, it has covered itself with glory, first as part of the Hyderabad Contingent of the State Forces of the Nizam of Hyderabad, then as part of the forces of the Madras Presidency Army of the East India Company, the Indian Army under the British and finally after Independence, as part of the Indian Army of free India. During its history of over two hundred years, the Battalion has a proud record of having acquitted itself with distinction both at home and abroad in various theatres of operations. Prior to Independence in 1947 individuals of the Battalion had earned 157 awards for Gallantry and Distinguished Service and post-Independence till date 392.



ZEALOT Bullets over the horizon

Author : Krishna Bhatia

Publisher : kitab writing publication

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 39,16 MB

Release : 2023-10-08

Category : Antiques & Collectibles

ISBN : 9358689366

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The book is second part under the book series CUSTODIANS OF NATION… THIS BOOK IS NOT WRITTEN TO HARM ONE’S SENTIMENTS.. WITH AN ACTION OF RESPECT THIS BOOK IS JUST A TRIBUTE TO THE GOLDEN PEOPLE WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES.



The Leadership Credo

Author : Col Shyam Vijaya Simha, SM

Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 38,31 MB

Release : 2022-10-18

Category : Bibles

ISBN :

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Colonel Shyam Vijay Simha had one of the best teachers of leadership in the world: the Indian army. Having served in the Indian army for over two decades, mostly in extremely tough areas with hostile terrain and climatic conditions, Col Simha was part of many operations where he led his teams into the battlefield and achieved success. In the process, he picked up invaluable lessons in being an effective leader, someone who can instil the right values in his teams and take them to the heights of victory. He now brings you all those lessons in this book. He gives us his unique perspective, peppered with compelling anecdotes, on several essential aspects of leadership. Corporate leaders, startup founders and independent professionals who want to make it big in the choppy waters of an increasingly complex world will find Forging the Leader a priceless read. Think of this book as a bootcamp in leadership.



India's Wars

Author : Arjun Subramaniam

Publisher : Naval Institute Press

Page : 548 pages

File Size : 19,31 MB

Release : 2017-09-15

Category : History

ISBN : 1682472426

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India’s armed forces play a key role in protecting the country and occupy a special place in the Indian people’s hearts, yet standard accounts of contemporary Indian history rarely have a military dimension. In India’s Wars, serving Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam seeks to rectify that oversight by giving India’s military exploits their rightful place in history. Subramaniam begins India’s Wars with a frank call to reinvigorate the study of military history as part of Indian history more generally. Part II surveys the development of the India’s army, navy, and air force from the early years of the modern era to 1971. In Parts III and IV, Subramaniam considers conflicts from 1947 to 1962 as well as conflicts with China in 1962 and Pakistan in 1965 and 1971. Part V concludes by assessing these conflicts through the lens of India’s ancient strategist, Kautilya, who is revered in India as much as Sun Tzu is in China. Not merely a wide-ranging historical narrative of India’s military performance in battle, India’s Wars also offers a strategic, operational, and human perspective on the wars fought by independent India’s armed forces. Subramaniam highlights possible ways to improve the synergy between the three services, and argues in favor of the declassification of historical material pertaining to national security. The author also examines the overall state of civil-military relations in India, leadership within the Indian armed forces, as well as training, capability building, and other vitally important issues of concern to citizens, the government, and the armed forces. This objective and critical analysis provides policy cues for the reinvigoration of the armed forces as a critical tool of statecraft and diplomacy. Readers will come away from India’s Wars with a greater understanding of the international environment of war and conflict in modern India. Laced with veterans’ intense experiences in combat operations, and deeply researched and passionately written, it unfolds with surprising ease and offers a fresh perspective on independent India’s history.



Kargil: A Saga of Sacrifice & Heroism

Author : Rishi Raj

Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan

Page : 171 pages

File Size : 21,86 MB

Release : 2023-03-15

Category : History

ISBN : 9355214782

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This book is a great tribute to our brave soldiers who fought fiercely in the Kargil War. In this book, you will know about the lives of various Kargil heroes such as Captain Saurabh Kalia, Captain Vijyant Thapar, Captain Vikram Batra, Captain Manoj Pandey, and many other young soldiers who had sacrificed their lives for the pride of Mother India. You will learn how our nerves had refused to admit defeat, even under adverse conditions and now they turned the tables on Pakistan no had assumed the war to be already won. in this book, the author Is also sharing his experience of meeting the families of the martyrs. The Kargil war was an outcome of Pakistan's betrayal as they had used Stealth to occupy 150 posts located along the 160 Km long Line of Control. This book also sheds light on our political and diplomatic victory and various other aspects of the Kargil War like the refusal of both China and the United States to provide any support to the Pakistani forces. This book Is an attempt by the author to keep alive the memories of all those martyrs, who laid their lives in the service of nation.



My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir (12th Edition_Reprint 2019)

Author : Jagmohan

Publisher : Allied Publishers

Page : 924 pages

File Size : 31,7 MB

Release : 1991-09-20

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 938592656X

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My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir, the Twelfth Edition of which is now being released, is a land-mark publication. It narrates and analyses not only the tumultuous events of the author’s two terms of Governorship but also of subsequent developments which underline how a tragic blunder of truly historic proportion was committed by the power that be at the Union Government level by not seeing the warning signals hoisted by him. The updated Edition shows how the combined onslaught of subversive, separatists and pro-Pakistan elements was faced, particularly in the wake of Burhan Wani’s death. It also shows how the outrageous perfidies of the genre of Uri terror attack were dealt with by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and how a New Resolve was formulated by him with seven ingredients, viz: (I) Exposure of Pakistan at UN Assembly; (II) Boycott of 19th SAARC Summit; (III) Revisiting Indus Water Treaty and Most Favoured Nation Status; (IV) Surgical Strike; (V) Baring the Ugly Face of Pakistani Bred Terrorism At the Multilateral Forum of BRICS; (VI) Deeper Exposure of Pakistan at HEART of Asia-Afghanistan Conference; (VII) Highlighting the Continued Violations of Human Rights in Balochistan and PoK, and Countering Pakistan’s Diabolical Disinformation Campaign with Regard to Kashmir. Finally, the Edition assesses the promise, performance and potential of the new helmsman. It ends with the hope of emergence of a new pattern which is appeasement-free, terror-free, and in which the noblest strands and sinews of India’s cultural heritage of treating service to man as service to God are regenerated, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, providing an illuminating avenue for reaching the goal of a mighty, enlightened and forward-looking India.