1962: The War That Wasn’t

India's defeat in the Sino-Indian conflict was largely decided before the shooting started, in rooms far from the ridgelines where it was fought. Shiv Kunal Verma reconstructs the 1962 war using declassified material, interviews with participants and close reading of terrain and orders, moving between the political leadership in Delhi and the units holding positions in the Himalayas. Command failures, supply shortfalls, intelligence assumptions and the personalities involved on both sides are examined in turn, with the military detail kept legible for readers without a service background. What the account covers: • Political and military decision-making traced from Delhi to the front • Declassified documents and first-hand interviews used as sources • Terrain, logistics and command structure explained clearly • Both sides of the border considered in the analysis For students of South Asian history, military readers and anyone examining the period seriously. Published by Aleph and available from Boipoka.