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The Midnight Call

How India Crushed a Coup in One Day

Autor: Aruj Mishra
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Independently published
Disponibilitate: Așteptăm intrarea în stoc
Ediția 03. 06. 2026
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3 November 1988. 4 AM. Gunmen pour onto the beaches of Malé.Two hundred hired mercenaries - armed, t...

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Autor
Aruj Mishra
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2026
Pagini
130
EAN
9798199243018
Enbook ID
52749577
Editura
Independently published
Greutate
186
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 8

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3 November 1988. 4 AM. Gunmen pour onto the beaches of Malé.

Two hundred hired mercenaries - armed, trained, and ruthless - have come to overthrow the government of the Maldives. The President is hiding in his own capital. His security forces are outnumbered three to one. The coup should be over before dawn.

Then someone picked up a phone and called India.

What followed was one of the most audacious military operations in Indian history - a battalion of paratroopers scrambled from Agra, 3,000 kilometres away, flying through the night, crossing a channel in fishing boats, fighting street by street through a city they had never set foot in before that morning.

By nightfall, the Maldives was free. The coup was over. India had arrived, done its job, and left without asking for anything in return.

Almost nobody knows this story.

Operation Cactus is the first full narrative account of the night India saved a nation - told through the voices of the soldiers who flew the aircraft, crossed the channel, and held the line, and the Maldivian civilians who lived through every terrifying hour of it.

Drawn from declassified records, veteran interviews, and first-hand testimony. For readers of India's Most Fearless, Midnight's Furies, and The Siege.