Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw The Man And His Times Pdf Free Best

Manekshaw first demonstrated his legendary courage during the Burma Campaign of World War II. In 1942, while leading a company against Japanese forces at the , he was hit by nine bullets from a light machine gun. Seeing his gallantry, Major General David Cowan personally pinned his own Military Cross on the severely wounded Manekshaw, famously remarking that a dead man could not be awarded the medal. When a surgeon asked what had happened, Sam characteristically joked that a "bloody mule kicked me"—a wit that supposedly convinced the doctor he was worth saving. The Architect of the 1971 Victory