India, Jan. 16 -- Swapnil Pandey's Wings of Valour is an absorbing and informative compendium of true sagas of the Indian Air Force (IAF)'s daring operations. It includes an account of Operation Sindoor as well. Apart from covering the IAF's many humanitarian and disaster relief (HADR) missions such as Operation Rahat (Yemen, 2015), Operation Kaveri (Sudan, 2023), the Deoghar cable car rescue operation (Jharkhand, 2022), Operation Safed Sagar (Kargil War, 1999) and Operation Pawan (IPKF, Sri Lanka, 1989), the book also presents inspiring accounts of the ultimate sacrifices made by the Garud Commando Force, the IAF's elite special forces unit.

The book opens with a brief history of the Indian Air Force, tracing its trajectory from its hum...