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THE SIEGE: THE ATTACK ON THE TAJ Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark Penguin Books, Delhi, 2014, 319 pp., 499
February 2014, volume 38, No 2

The title of the book suggests that it is only a narrative on the attack on Taj Hotel, one of the several targets during the three-day long Mumbai terrorist attacks in November 2008. And yet, The Siege tells a full story of the terrorist ‘Operation Bombay’, almost. In a never before narrative on the ‘mother of all terrorist attacks’ on the Indian soil, and a wonderful exhibition of the art of story telling, the book reconstructs the prelude to the attack, the attack per se and the experience thereafter.

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