Pakistani military history as always remained a promiscuous collection of lies and half-truths . We were fed with half-truths and doctored distortions and it took me some 33 years to learn the truth about the subject of this book. General Gul Hassan who knew the maximum being a direct participant and functioning at the key appointment of chief of general staff wrote an extremely readable book which simply camouflages all the key facts of 1971 war This had two reasons; first that Gul Hassan was not a war experienced soldier having served as aide de camp in Second World War and in staff positions in all Indo Pak wars. The second and the more important reason was that Gul Hassan was partly responsible for Pakistan's strategic and operational failures of 1971 war. Thus in his wonderful book fed us on half-truths if not outright lies