An Intriguing Personal Chronicle of Bangladesh’s Liberation War

Eleanor Roosevelt, the American humanitarian and diplomat and the First Lady of the U.S. once wrote to Harry Truman: “I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war” (Letter dated 22 March 1948). Yet humanity has not been able to consign war to the domain of the obsolete. It is still there very much with us. A reading of Nicholas Faust’s South of the Padma is bound to...

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