About the Book:
This volume is a collection of documents concerning American policy towards the Bangladesh liberation war in 1971 pursued by President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. This policy came to be known as “tilt” for Pakistan. Washington gave all-out moral and material support to Pakistan’s military regime under General Yahya Khan during the nine-month long liberation war of Bangladesh. The compiled documents demonstrate the nature and extent of US help for Pakistan as well as the policy-making process in Washington, D.C. However, the Nixon-Kissinger efforts to protect the territorial unity of Pakistan and hinder the cause of Bangladesh proved unavailing. The indomitable Mukti Bahini of Bangladesh with substantial Indian help eventually came out victorious when the marauding Pakistani forces surrendered to the Indo-Bangladesh joint command in Dhaka on 16 December 1971, making independent Bangladesh a reality.
