{"product_id":"operation-bluestar-the-untold-story-from-inside-the-golden-temple-9798199242370","title":"Operation Bluestar: The Untold Story from Inside the Golden Temple","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Aruj Mishra\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Military - Strategy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJune 5, 1984. 10 PM. India's Army marches into its holiest Sikh shrine.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Harmandir Sahib - the Golden Temple - has stood for four hundred years as the most sacred site in the Sikh faith. On the night of June 5, 1984, the Indian government sent tanks and paratroopers inside its walls. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat happened over the next sixteen hours changed India forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSacred Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full narrative account of Operation Bluestar told from ground level - by an officer who was inside the complex on that night, who watched two soldiers from his unit die on the marble parikrama, and who has spent forty years trying to understand what he was part of. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not a book about whether the operation was right or wrong. It is a book about what it was. About the political cynicism that manufactured the crisis. About the intelligence failures that made the assault bloodier than it needed to be. About the civilians - the pilgrims trapped inside during a religious anniversary - whose deaths have never been officially counted. About the soldiers who followed orders into a sacred space and carried the weight of it for the rest of their lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on declassified documents, the British SAS connection, survivor testimony, and forty years of witness interviews, \u003ci\u003eSacred Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is the complete account of India's most contested military operation - told with the honesty that only time, and the presence of a witness, can produce. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor readers of India's Most Fearless, The Siege, and Midnight's Furies. For anyone who wants to understand what India did in 1984 - and why it still matters.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889707040919,"sku":"9798199242370","price":848.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199242370.webp?v=1781177421","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/operation-bluestar-the-untold-story-from-inside-the-golden-temple-9798199242370","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}