This absorbing and closely documented book challenges the conventional wisdom about the Sino/Indian conflict which reached its climax in the border war of 1962. Reasonable, peaceable India, victim of unprovoked Chinese aggression --- such is the general view. But Neville Maxwell's dispassionate account of the policies and actions which led to the border war shows that the truth was very different.
First recounting the history of the disputed boundaries, the author shows that a diplomatic settlement need not have been difficult to achieve --- then traces the policy decisions taken in India early in the 1950s which blocked the way. The failed Nehru/Chou Enlai summit meeting in New Dehli in 1960 marked the effective end to any hopes of a negotiated settlement. After that another story begins; the attempt of the Indian government to use military force to push the Chinese out of territory India claimed and the resistance of the Army to a policy which the soldiers knew was wholly beyond their power to implement.
That resistance was eroded by politics and favouritism and late in 1961 India launched the "Forward policy", a direct military challenge to China. The point of unavoidable collision approached through the following summer and was reached in the climax of the border war, which saw India's army in the north-east shatter under the Chinese assault.
发表于2024-11-23
India's China War 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
这本书虽然已很有年代感了,导致现在已经买不到正版,拿到手的书竟然是粗劣的影印版,好在基本不影响阅读。在读这本书之前,对中印战争中国战胜后为什么退的那迅速,那么坚决很是疑惑,虽然知道那时有和苏联交恶的原因。从这本书作者详尽且有些絮叨的记述中(虽然大部分是印度...
评分成书于70年代的关于60年代初中印边界冲突的前后,受限于材料,关于中方的内部决策只取用了官方公告以及周恩来总理与尼赫鲁之间的通信。所以如书名,作者还是更多的从印度一方的角度去分析这场冲突的起源,我们可以看出印度当时对华政策的思维模式以及政府的行为动因。 边界是一...
评分读完麦氏的印度中国战争,赶脚是非常详实的报道和分析,以英帝的血统和家学得出这样的公允结论, 实属不易, 难怪基辛格对周恩来说:看了这本书, 觉得可以和你们(中国)做生意了。 欠缺?当然是忽视了帝国主义的因素对战争的影响,满篇的美国政府和大使的影子,时不时出现的...
评分读完麦氏的印度中国战争,赶脚是非常详实的报道和分析,以英帝的血统和家学得出这样的公允结论, 实属不易, 难怪基辛格对周恩来说:看了这本书, 觉得可以和你们(中国)做生意了。 欠缺?当然是忽视了帝国主义的因素对战争的影响,满篇的美国政府和大使的影子,时不时出现的...
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Neville Maxwell is uniquely qualified to write this book. He reported these events for The Times as their South Asia correspondent, augmenting and reappraising his understanding of the dispute as a senior fellow at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. In his research, he was given access to unpublished Indian government papers and reports.
Born in London in 1926, Neville Maxwell went to school in Australia, served in the AIF in 1945, and continued his education at McGill University and Cambridge. Working first as a reporter in Australia, he joined The Times in 1955 and spent three years in the Washington bureau before coming to New Delhi in August 1959 as South Asia correspondent. He held this assignment for eight years, travelling widely through India and the sub-continent; and left in July 1967 to make a study of the Sino-Indian dispute as a senior fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University. He is now joining the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at Oxford.
阿三六十年来真心是没什么长进……
评分阿三六十年来真心是没什么长进……
评分“你不问,我就不主动提。英国抢的就是我的。跟你来往已经是给你面子,不要把理所当然的事情和我讨价还价”:当年的三哥恰独立门户,风华正茂,亲美苏又自立不结盟运动领主,自然有自信看不起叫花子一样的新中国。对照今天印度的对华战略,简直就是个死亡游轮循环。
评分“你不问,我就不主动提。英国抢的就是我的。跟你来往已经是给你面子,不要把理所当然的事情和我讨价还价”:当年的三哥恰独立门户,风华正茂,亲美苏又自立不结盟运动领主,自然有自信看不起叫花子一样的新中国。对照今天印度的对华战略,简直就是个死亡游轮循环。
评分“你不问,我就不主动提。英国抢的就是我的。跟你来往已经是给你面子,不要把理所当然的事情和我讨价还价”:当年的三哥恰独立门户,风华正茂,亲美苏又自立不结盟运动领主,自然有自信看不起叫花子一样的新中国。对照今天印度的对华战略,简直就是个死亡游轮循环。
India's China War 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书