Perhaps both. The Middle Stage reviews Pervez Musharraf’s autobiography-In The Line Of Fire
In The Line of Fire itself often takes liberties with the truth, but in doing so it is so revelatory of the General’s personality that it makes for a far more interesting book than a safer, more cautious account. Autobiography often stands at an angle to historical truth, but in doing so it lets us in on other valuable truths. This is not a book we need to read to understand contemporary Pakistan, as the General would have us believe, but it is certainly something to read if we want to understand the General.
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