Bangladesh and Pakistan: The Forgotten War

Bangladesh
Christian Simonpietri / Sygma / Corbis

The Guns of December
Pakistani troops organize a frantic defense in the last month of 1971 as they desperately seek to hold onto East Pakistan, a territory on the other side of India that would eventually become Bangladesh.

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