India Military

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.

The extraordinary firsthand account of an American special forces unit in the jungles of southeast Asia and their guerilla operations against the Japanese during World War II!

Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked. His army's slaughter of Japanese troops ultimately liberated India and Burma.

THRILLING, DARK, STEAMY MILITARY ROMANCE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN. ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE. Former Delta man Mike "Ice" Wagner gets sent halfway across the world to interrogate Indy O'Donnell, a CIA analyst who insists she's being set up to look like a traitor. Is she? Ice better find out before it's too late. For them both. A mind-bending, twisting, turning, snaking, seductive thriller. This is Romance Like You've Never Seen. Annabelle Winters Style. 187,000 words / 767 pages. WHAT AMAZON AND GOODREADS REVIEWERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE TEAM DARKWATER SERIES: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ok so...

By the end of the nineteenth century, India was described as the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, but how did such a small island come to dominate one of the richest lands in the world? Without doubt the toughest opponents to British control was led by the Sikhs. Ranjit Singh, the brilliant "Lion of Punjab" who ruled the Sikh Empire, had revolutionized his army by employing French officers from Napoleon's Grand Army to train his artillery and infantry on the European model.

Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the listener up to present-day India, John Keay’s India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples of the subcontinent, from their ancient beginnings in the valley of the Indus to the events in the region today.

Flying the notorious "hump route" between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, a Soviet double agent posing as an OSS operative, and General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's personal political adviser. Against the odds, all but one of the 21 people aboard the aircraft survived - but they fell from the frying pan into the fire.

Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of history, French exposes the cultural foundations of India’s political, economic and social complexities.

In February 1944, in one of the most astonishing battles of World War II, a ragtag collection of British clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews, managed to defeat a much larger and sophisticated contingent of some of the finest infantry in the Japanese army on their march toward India.

In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air—meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on “the Hump,” the fearsome mountain barrier that defined the air route.

In book 10 of The Things Our Fathers Saw® series, Over the Hump/China, Burma, India, we will visit with the veterans of most overlooked theater of World War II as they prepare to fly over and march through the most inhospitable terrain on the planet, from the Himalaya Mountains to the jungles and mountains of Burma, battling elite Japanese forces, sickness, and tropical disease.

Some secrets kill. Some loves save. In the world of covert ops, both can be equally dangerous. Gabrielle has spent years trying to wash the blood from her hands through her work with the secretive organization Purgatory. When she's assigned to rescue Sullivan Thorne, an imprisoned Navy SEAL, she expects resistance, violence, and danger. What she doesn't expect is the way his touch makes her want to lower her weapons - both literal and emotional. Together, they uncover a conspiracy that stretches from the streets of Johannesburg to the deserts of Sudan, involving advanced technology and ...

The Army major who led the legendary September 2016 surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC; a soldier who killed 11 terrorists in 10 days; a Navy officer who sailed into a treacherous port to rescue hundreds from an exploding war; a bleeding Air Force pilot who found himself flying a jet that had become a screaming fireball...their own accounts or of those who were with them in their final moments.

An impossible mission. Seasoned operatives. Can this husband and wife team keep their love alive? The women of Purgatory are gearing up for their toughest mission yet… and this time, it will push them to the breaking point. When top assassin Gabrielle Thorne accepts a mysterious job, she should have listened to the warning signs – because now they’re all in danger. Dragged into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with her team Sully, Mac, Wes, Dee, Owen, and Lance, the women of Purgatory and their Navy SEAL lovers quickly find themselves embroiled in a struggle for survival that will have ...

In 1941 and 1942, the British and Indian armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories throughout Asia. But change was coming. New commanders were appointed, significant training together with restructuring took place and new tactics were developed. A War of Empires by acclaimed historian Robert Lyman expertly retells these coordinated efforts and describes how a new volunteer Indian Army, rising from the ashes of defeat, would ferociously fight to turn the tide of war.

Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent—she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region. In The Taliban Shuffle, Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial routing of the Taliban, when we failed to finish the job.

She’s a talented sniper, he’s a broken SEAL drowning his sorrows in the dark. Can they bring down a monster together? Mac never misses a shot… until one fateful mission when her life changed in the blink of an eye. Caught in the crosshairs of a bloodthirsty killer and forced to go into hiding, she quickly finds herself with a target painted on her back. But the BDSM club beneath her safehouse is no place to hide – especially not with the sexy hunk of a Navy SEAL lurking in the shadows. Mac is drawn to Wesley’s broken soul… but once she charms the wounded warrior back into the ...

An epic saga of hubris, cruelty, and redemption, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest manhunt of World War II. Herman Perry, besieged by the hardships of the Indo-Burmese jungle and the racism meted out by his white commanding officers, found solace in opium and marijuana. But on one fateful day, Perry shot his unarmed white lieutenant in the throes of an emotional collapse and fled into the jungle. Brendan I. Koerner spent nearly five years chasing Perry's ghost to the most remote corners of India and Burma.

He never expected to be the Chief of Army Staff. But now that he was there, he would do exactly what he thought was right. A Prime Minister who is fighting for his government’s survival. A country plagued by corruption, failing economy and internal strife. A population that is disillusioned with it’s leaders. Would he succumb too? Like others, take the path of least resistance? This is the story of what happens when one man decides to take things into his own hands, and act in what he thinks is best in national interest. What happens when that man is the Army Chief.

In 1943 Winston Churchill and the British Empire needed millions of Indian troops, all of India's industrial output, and tons of Indian grain to support the Allied war effort. Such massive contributions were certain to trigger famine in India. Because Churchill believed that the fate of the British Empire hung in the balance, he proceeded, sacrificing millions of Indian lives in order to preserve what he held most dear. The result: the Bengal Famine of 1943-44, in which millions of villagers starved to death.