About the Book: 1999: The Battle for the Heights of point 5770
In the summer of 1999, a single peak in the stark, desolate wilderness of the
Siachen Glacier became the battleground between India and Pakistan. As conflict
engulfed the Kargil sector, intelligence revealed activity atop Point 5770?a
strategic peak from which one could command the southern part of the glacier.
The Pakistan Army had established Bilal Post and reclaiming it was both
imperative and daunting. In 1999: The Battle for the Heights of Point 5770,
Lieutenant General Konsam Himalay Singh and Shiv Kunal Verma retell a gripping
episode of the Kargil War when the soldiers of