BRAVE : PARAM VIR CHAKRA STORIES

By:

BHIST, RACHNA

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: NEW DELHI PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED 2014Edition: 1STDescription: 282 P. HardboundISBN:

978-0143422358

Subject(s):

NOVELS FICTIONS BIOGRAPHIES

DDC classification:

808.3 BHI

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Contents:

English Literature Fictions Novels Param Vir Chakra English Novels Brave Armed Forces

Summary: The Brave takes you into 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 and the 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 the 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. Contents Twenty-one riveting stories about how India's highest military honor was won. Rachna Bisht Rawat takes us to the heart of war, chronicling the tales of twenty-one of India's bravest soldiers. Talking to parents, siblings, children and comrades-in-arms to paint the most vivid character-portraits of these men and their conduct in battle and getting unprecedented access to the Indian Army, Rawat has written the ultimate book on the Param Vir Chakra.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Tolani Maritime Institute	808.3 BHI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		M14524

O:00786 06-DEC-2022 B:2022-23/317 06-DEC-2022

English Literature
Fictions
Novels
Param Vir Chakra
English Novels
Brave
Armed Forces

The Brave takes you into 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 and the 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 the 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.

Contents
Twenty-one riveting stories about how India's highest military honor was won. Rachna Bisht Rawat takes us to the heart of war, chronicling the tales of twenty-one of India's bravest soldiers. Talking to parents, siblings, children and comrades-in-arms to paint the most vivid character-portraits of these men and their conduct in battle and getting unprecedented access to the Indian Army, Rawat has written the ultimate book on the Param Vir Chakra.

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