books on 1971

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Unquiet legacies in Salil Tripathi’s ‘The Colonel Who Would Not Repent’

Every December, my reading group chooses a book related to 1971. In 2015, for example, we read A. Qayyum Khan’s Bittersweet Victory: A Freedom Fighter’s Tale (2013) and a few years earlier we read Siddik Salik’s Witness to Surrender (Oxford University Press, 1977).