Aleph Book Company 1962 (English, Hardcover, Verma Ashok Kalyan)

178 mm

114 mm

185 gr

1962

Aleph Book Company

2026 August

136

Hardcover

Aleph Book Company

History

9789365238334

Social Science Books

HIS027130

Society and Culture Books

1st

9365238331

English

"Major General Ashok Kalyan Verma, AVSM, was a soldier–scholar whose life embodied the Rajput Regiment’s finest traditions. Commissioned into 2 Rajput and later commanding 18 Rajput in 1971—winning the Battle Honour Akhaura—he combined battlefield experience with historical depth. The regiment’s sixth colonel, he remained its conscience and chronicler until his passing in 2015. Born into an army family (his father, Major General Verma, was a captain with 2 Rajput in 1962), film-maker and military historian Shiv Kunal Verma has worked with all three arms of the Indian armed forces over the last two and a half decades. From flying extensively with the IAF while making Salt of the Earth and Aakash Yodha to the filming of the Naval Dimension and the Kargil War, Verma has had a ringside view of matters military. His film on the National Defence Academy—The Standard Bearers—is considered a classic. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Northeast Trilogy (that documented the entire region and its peoples) and The Long Road to Siachen: The Question Why. His acclaimed works include 1962: The War That Wasn’t and 1965: A Western Sunrise."