Untold Kargil Story

Artillery’s Thunder: The Untold Kargil Story offers a rare, frontline perspective of the 1999 Kargil War, seen through the eyes of an Artillery Commander. In this gripping account, Maj Gen Lakhwinder Singh recounts how India’s mighty Bofors FH-77B howitzers turned the tide of Operation Vijay. With over 290,000 shells fired, the guns decimated enemy positions and helped reclaim strategic peaks like Tololing and Tiger Hill. From the political dynamics to the military leadership’s initial state of confusion, and then the studied, well-planned actions – it is a clarion call to jolt us out of slumber and create a viable and visible strategic deterrence.

This book not only celebrates the precision, power, and coordination of Indian artillery, infantry, and air force, but also reminds that the echoes of Kargil are far from silent. The 2025 Pahalgam attack and India’s fierce retaliation in Operation Sindoor reveal that peace along the Line of Control (LoC) remains fragile.

A powerful blend of battlefield heroism and present-day urgency, this is a tribute to the men who fought at the world’s highest battlefield.