On 25 March 1971, the Pakistan Government launched Operation Searchlight, the code name for the military crackdown on the Eastern wing, to suppress Bengali calls for self-determination. In a conference held a moth earlier, President Yahya Khan said "Kill three million of them and the rest will eat out of your hands," thus giving state sanction to genocide. Over the next nine months, the Pakistan military and supporting militias went on an orgy of killing, rape and loot, which for its sheer brutality is unparalleled. The resistance movement that developed to fight the forces of repression had to contend with the might of a merciless and well-armed military that had no compunction in killing unarmed civilians. Yet, the people soldiered on, unwilling to suffer indignity and deprivation. In support of the freedom movement, the Indian Armed Forces, jointly operation with the Mukti Bahini intervened militarily on 3 December and in a swift 13-day war, forced the Pakistani military to unconditionally surrender. This book recounts first hand stories from the resistance movement of soldiers who fought the Liberation war