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INSOMNIA - ARMY STORIES
Storizen
|October 2020
Who are the invisible people a little girl awaiting brain surgery in the Lansdowne Military Hospital talks to?
A retired General is haunted by voices of dead men. Soldiers from two enemy nations manning posts in freezing Siachen form a strange connection.
A retired General is haunted by voices of dead men.Soldiers from two enemy nations manning posts in freezing Siachen form a strange connection. A young Lieutenant dying in the jungles of Arunachal is watched over by three men, one of whom would have his destiny changed forever. What is the dark secret held by a Major and his men operating incognito in Kashmir? What surprise is a train bound for Agra bringing to the all-male bastion of 13 Para? Who are the invisible people a little girl awaiting brain surgery in the Lansdowne Military Hospital talks to? From the bestselling author of The Brave, 1965 and Kargil comes a book that will take you into the olive-green world of army cantonments, through stories that will delight and disturb in equal measure.
This story is from the October 2020 edition of Storizen.
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