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The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 – Where the Terror Began
Жанр:
Дом. семья. хобби
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Английский
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Год издания:
2019
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The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 – Where the Terror Began
Adrian Levy
Cathy Scott-Clark
They have come in search of many things – nirvana, exhilaration, a sense of self. But over the course of the next week, their holidays take a terrifying turn when they become entangled in a nail-biting hostage drama that will suck them into an alien world of jihad and Islamic fundamentalism. In the months that follow, their fates will become caught-up in a bloody struggle between India and Pakistan, fought out in the airless heights of Kashmir.With the world looking on, four of the captured travellers will vanish off the face of the earth, never to be seen again, creating one of the region’s great mysteries.Written with access to diaries, letters, unprocessed film and personal recollections from those enmeshed in the drama, drawing on classified police reports and secret tape recordings of Indian government negotiations, as well as interviews with the jihadis themselves and excerpts from their journals, Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark’s book is a real-life thriller, a startling but compelling story told from the perspective of all involved.The Meadow charts how the fates of two groups of young men from different hemispheres became inextricably entwined on the mountain trails they followed. It tells of the terrifying escape of one hostage, the heart-rending secret letters another wrote on birch bark and hid in his clothing as he contemplated his situation, and how, with a brutal beheading, the kidnappers took an irreversible step into the abyss.Packed with explosive revelations, The Meadow provides the first definitive answers as to what happened to the missing backpackers, revealing how the kidnapping of July 1995 changed the face of modern jihad, its architects going on to sow the seeds of a cold-hearted war against the West.
ADRIAN LEVY AND
CATHY SCOTT-CLARK
The Meadow
Terrorism, Kidnapping
and Conspiracy in Paradise
For all of the injured, the dead and the missing
The headlights filled the road. Everyone cried
out for mother and father’s love and as the
doors to the ascent opened the ballad began
again. For his disappeared love he went from
hole to hole, grave to grave, searching for the
eyes that don’t find. From gravestone to
gravestone, from cry to cry, it went through
niches, through shadows, and it went like this.
FROM RAÚL ZURITA, SONG FOR HIS DISAPPEARED LOVE, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY DANIEL BORZUTZKY
(ACTION BOOKS, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, 2010)
CONTENTS
Title Page (#ua172fb10-dfe1-58d8-8737-55847630efcf)
Dedication (#u1b368c30-1429-510e-a6bd-3c3ea828cab9)
List of Illustrations
MAPS: (#u7a086bf9-ec30-54fb-9773-ffb51ce12123)
South Asia (#ulink_828c3e1c-d12d-54f6-a1e7-1ae66bfb5f36)
Central Srinagar (#udc22c5e9-bfe5-566c-a47c-316d04a4466b)
Southern Kashmir and Doda District (#u39143b4f-4e40-575e-bd64-807732b02e6a)
Trekking and Pilgrimage Routes in Kashmir Valley (#u194fef49-9fa4-54d5-92a8-c1a71c9a7f9c)
Anantnag District (#ud5a98315-4a39-542a-94cf-d36e0004c312)
Dramatis Personae
Abbreviations
Prologue
1. Packing
2. A Father’s Woes
3. The Meadow
4. Home
5. Kidnap
6. The Night Callers
7. Up and Down
8. Hunting Dogs
9. Deadline
10. Tikoo on the Line
11. Winning the War, Call by Call
12. The Golden Swan
13. Resolution Through Dialogue
14. Ordinary People
15. The Squad
16. The Game
17. The Goldfish Bowl
18. Chor-Chor Mausere Bhai (All Thieves are Cousins)
19. Hunting Bears
20. The Circus
Epilogue: Fill Your Arms with Lightning
Picture Section (#uba1639e4-b08a-5a44-9e5f-722a479022dd)
Acknowledgements
A Note on Sources
About the Authors
Praise (#ud2e6cc2c-e98e-520a-bc0d-2a9d28f06421)
By the Same Authors
Copyright
Adrian Levy
Cathy Scott-Clark
They have come in search of many things – nirvana, exhilaration, a sense of self. But over the course of the next week, their holidays take a terrifying turn when they become entangled in a nail-biting hostage drama that will suck them into an alien world of jihad and Islamic fundamentalism. In the months that follow, their fates will become caught-up in a bloody struggle between India and Pakistan, fought out in the airless heights of Kashmir.With the world looking on, four of the captured travellers will vanish off the face of the earth, never to be seen again, creating one of the region’s great mysteries.Written with access to diaries, letters, unprocessed film and personal recollections from those enmeshed in the drama, drawing on classified police reports and secret tape recordings of Indian government negotiations, as well as interviews with the jihadis themselves and excerpts from their journals, Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark’s book is a real-life thriller, a startling but compelling story told from the perspective of all involved.The Meadow charts how the fates of two groups of young men from different hemispheres became inextricably entwined on the mountain trails they followed. It tells of the terrifying escape of one hostage, the heart-rending secret letters another wrote on birch bark and hid in his clothing as he contemplated his situation, and how, with a brutal beheading, the kidnappers took an irreversible step into the abyss.Packed with explosive revelations, The Meadow provides the first definitive answers as to what happened to the missing backpackers, revealing how the kidnapping of July 1995 changed the face of modern jihad, its architects going on to sow the seeds of a cold-hearted war against the West.
ADRIAN LEVY AND
CATHY SCOTT-CLARK
The Meadow
Terrorism, Kidnapping
and Conspiracy in Paradise
For all of the injured, the dead and the missing
The headlights filled the road. Everyone cried
out for mother and father’s love and as the
doors to the ascent opened the ballad began
again. For his disappeared love he went from
hole to hole, grave to grave, searching for the
eyes that don’t find. From gravestone to
gravestone, from cry to cry, it went through
niches, through shadows, and it went like this.
FROM RAÚL ZURITA, SONG FOR HIS DISAPPEARED LOVE, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY DANIEL BORZUTZKY
(ACTION BOOKS, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, 2010)
CONTENTS
Title Page (#ua172fb10-dfe1-58d8-8737-55847630efcf)
Dedication (#u1b368c30-1429-510e-a6bd-3c3ea828cab9)
List of Illustrations
MAPS: (#u7a086bf9-ec30-54fb-9773-ffb51ce12123)
South Asia (#ulink_828c3e1c-d12d-54f6-a1e7-1ae66bfb5f36)
Central Srinagar (#udc22c5e9-bfe5-566c-a47c-316d04a4466b)
Southern Kashmir and Doda District (#u39143b4f-4e40-575e-bd64-807732b02e6a)
Trekking and Pilgrimage Routes in Kashmir Valley (#u194fef49-9fa4-54d5-92a8-c1a71c9a7f9c)
Anantnag District (#ud5a98315-4a39-542a-94cf-d36e0004c312)
Dramatis Personae
Abbreviations
Prologue
1. Packing
2. A Father’s Woes
3. The Meadow
4. Home
5. Kidnap
6. The Night Callers
7. Up and Down
8. Hunting Dogs
9. Deadline
10. Tikoo on the Line
11. Winning the War, Call by Call
12. The Golden Swan
13. Resolution Through Dialogue
14. Ordinary People
15. The Squad
16. The Game
17. The Goldfish Bowl
18. Chor-Chor Mausere Bhai (All Thieves are Cousins)
19. Hunting Bears
20. The Circus
Epilogue: Fill Your Arms with Lightning
Picture Section (#uba1639e4-b08a-5a44-9e5f-722a479022dd)
Acknowledgements
A Note on Sources
About the Authors
Praise (#ud2e6cc2c-e98e-520a-bc0d-2a9d28f06421)
By the Same Authors
Copyright
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