Myths and Facts Bangladesh Liberation War: How India, US, China, and the USSR Shaped the Outcome

A Note to the Reader\nPreface\nPeople\n1   How America Viewed East Pakistan in 1971: Genesis of U.S. Policy\n2   Pakistan in Trouble: Mujib’s Secret Message to America\n3   Why the Yahya-Mujib Talks Failed: Did Mujib Want to Break Pakistan?\n4   Kissinger\'s Diplomacy: Tryst with Failure\n5   Blood Telegram: Diplomatic Revolt in East Pakistan\n6   Why Nixon Opposed India: The Indo-U.S.-Sino-Soviet Equation\n7   Yahya’s Misadventure: Dark Clouds Over Pakistan\n8   Did India Plan to Break Pakistan?\n9   Did Yahya Want to Hang Mujib?\n10   Moshtaque-U.S. Secret Talks: What Really Happened?\n11   U.S. Fiasco in East Pakistan: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Medicine\n12   U.S. Warns India: Don’t Start War\n13   Pakistan Crisis: Superpower Game\n14   America Wakes Up, Smells War\n15   India Beats War Drum\n16   Gandhi Goes to Washington\n17   East Pakistan Burns, Yahya Snoozes\n18   Agha Khan Formula: Unique Solution Missed?\n19   India Begins Blitzkrieg\n20   Operation Liberate Dhaka\n21   “Balkanize” West Pakistan: Why Gandhi Backed Off\n22   Why Niazi Surrendered\n23   Bangladesh Wins Freedom: America Faces New Reality\nDeclassified Documents\nAcronyms\nBibliography\n	Chapter One