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Heights Of Madness - One Woman’s Journey in Pursuit of a Secret War
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- By Myra MacDonald |
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Siachen. The world's highest battlefield. An obscure, unwinable
war fought in the mountains far beyond the reach of ordinary
men. A parable of India Pakistan.
At the end of 2003, foreign correspondent Myra MacDonald set
out to uncover the secrets of this war, on a journey which began
in the monkey infested military headquarters in Delhi, led
through the villages of superstitious Indian foot soldiers to the
villas of retired generals in Islamabad and to the war zone itself,
on both the Indian and Pakistani sides.
Heights of Madness. One Woman's Journey in Pursuit of a Secret War is the first account of the Siachen war to be told
from both the Indian and the Pakistani points of view. But it is also about the journey itself, |
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of a lone foreign woman traveling through India and Pakistan meeting larger than life characters – the Buddhist Hillman, the Sikh hero, the Pathan commander, the Hindu javan - and stumbling into improbable settings, fighting off altitude sickness in yak tent, huddling around a bukhar strove in a makeshift officers mess, suffering from sunburn on the world’s highest road.
And perhaps most of all, it is about the mountains. For the Siachen war is fought over a land so beautiful
that you come to believe, as do many of soldiers who serve there, that this is indeed the home of the gods.
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