![]() ![]() There may be an earlier printing in 1985. This book was published in 1986 by Hodder and Stoughton, with a coverprice of UKP 4.95 net in the UK. ![]() The dialogue, whenever used, is a faithful reproduction of the words which my informants said they actually used during the events in which they were involved.' Publication and reception David Taylor, a South Asia expert, praises the book's 'attention to detail and narrative' although he suggests that it is short on interpretation and treats certain episodes of lesser importance in 'excessive length'. ![]() It is based on my close personal knowledge of the main protagonists on more than 120 separate interviews with the men and women involved in the dramatic events and on official archives and documents which I had the privilege to inspect personally. On the 16th of December, 1971, the state of Bangladesh (population 70,000,000) was born at the end of a nine-month liberation struggle in which more than a million Bengalis of the erstwhile East Pakistan died at the hands of the Pakistan army.īut one of the 20th century's great man-made disasters is also among the greatest of its human triumphs in terms of a people's will for self-determination.' Background Mascarenhas describes his own book thus: 'This book is the unvarnished story of their (the early leaders of Bangladesh) times, essentially the sad history of the first 10 years of Bangladesh. In a November 1985 preface to the book, Mascarenhas writes: 'This is a true story in many ways a text book of Third World disenchantment. Written in 13 chapters and an index, the book also contains a list of officers convicted by General Court Martial and hanged for the assassination of President Ziaur Rahman. In its jacket, the book promises that it has 'revealed' issues like who killed Mujib (the first prime minister of Bangladesh), who was responsible for the in Bangladesh, and how General Zia was assassinated. A section of black-and-white photographs depict the slain Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the slain General Ziaur Rahman, plotters behind various coups, politicians and some photocopies of documents and an official gazette related to the many coups this South Asian country has suffered.
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