The brave : Param Vir Chakra stories /
Rawat, Rachna Bisht
The brave : Param Vir Chakra stories / Rachna Bisht Rawat - USA Ebury Press 2014 - 283 p.
21 riveting stories from the battlefield about how India’s highest military honour was won
The Brave takes you to the hearts and minds of India’s bravest soldiers, all of whom won the Param Vir Chakra, India’s greatest military honour. With access to the Army, families and comrades-in-arms of the soldiers, Rachna Bisht Rawat paints the most vivid portrait of these men and their extraordinary deeds.
How hard is it to fight at 20,000 feet in sub-zero temperatures? Why did Captain Vikram Batra say ‘Yeh dil maange more’? How do wives and girlfriends of soldiers who don’t return cope? What happens when the enemy is someone that you have trained? How did the Charlie Company push back the marauding Chinese? How did a villager from Uttar Pradesh become a specialist in destroying tanks?
Both gripping and inspiring, The Brave is the ultimate book on the Param Vir Chakra.
9780143422358
Param Vir Chakra
The Indo-Pak war of 1947-48
Congo - 1961
The Indo-chinese war of 1962
Second Kashmir War of 1965
The Indo-Pak war of 1971
Siachen-1987
Operation Pawan 1987-90
The Kargil War 1999
355.1342 RAW-R
The brave : Param Vir Chakra stories / Rachna Bisht Rawat - USA Ebury Press 2014 - 283 p.
21 riveting stories from the battlefield about how India’s highest military honour was won
The Brave takes you to the hearts and minds of India’s bravest soldiers, all of whom won the Param Vir Chakra, India’s greatest military honour. With access to the Army, families and comrades-in-arms of the soldiers, Rachna Bisht Rawat paints the most vivid portrait of these men and their extraordinary deeds.
How hard is it to fight at 20,000 feet in sub-zero temperatures? Why did Captain Vikram Batra say ‘Yeh dil maange more’? How do wives and girlfriends of soldiers who don’t return cope? What happens when the enemy is someone that you have trained? How did the Charlie Company push back the marauding Chinese? How did a villager from Uttar Pradesh become a specialist in destroying tanks?
Both gripping and inspiring, The Brave is the ultimate book on the Param Vir Chakra.
9780143422358
Param Vir Chakra
The Indo-Pak war of 1947-48
Congo - 1961
The Indo-chinese war of 1962
Second Kashmir War of 1965
The Indo-Pak war of 1971
Siachen-1987
Operation Pawan 1987-90
The Kargil War 1999
355.1342 RAW-R