Author: Lt Gen L P Sen
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 308
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0861316924
Description
An unforgettable story of Kashmir invasion is told here by the commander of the famous Brigade with a wealth of detail matched by depth of perception. The story is worth reading again and again as the Kashmir confrontation is not over yet.
The Kashmir confrontation of 1947-48 is not only a vital event by itself, but with the episode begins the military history proper of independent India.
On 22nd October 1947, pathans and frontier tribesmen from over the mountains overran the valley of Kashmir and were about to storm Srinagar, when the 161 Infantry Brigade moved into action.
Slender as the thread was that connected the brigade to the rest of the Indian army, it held and revealed its strength as a fistful of soldiers defended and liberated one strategic post after another until the enemy, whatever its nationality, was pushed back to wherever he had come from.