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India's China War is a controversial book about the Sino-Indian War of 1962 by former London Times reporter Neville Maxwell. Summary of the Book Neville Maxwell begins his book by asserting that he has drawn all information from secret files to which he was granted unhindered access by the Government of India. This book puts across the events leading to and following the war fought between India and China in 1962. In this book he professes that the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was quite taken in by the idea of Indo-Chinese fraternity and that Pandit Nehru did not see the Chinese for their background machinations. Maxwell deals in detail with the Bajpai-Panniker correspondence which involved the embargo with the McMahon line. He also tells readers he had access to the Henderson-Brookes report, placed on the Table of the House in the September of 1963 and currently one of India's most secret reports. Divided mainly into three parts, the book begins with Maxwell's version of the dispute up to the Nehru-Chou En-lai meeting in April 1960. It leads further to discuss how certain people believed that Tibet and Ladakh were one part and how both should ideally belong to China which has exterted control over both since the 19th century. This book throws light on many details by envisioning them through Maxwell's eyes. About Neville Maxwell Neville Maxwell is a former Australian-British journalist and writer. He gained notoriety for leaking the first part of the Henderson Brooks–Bhagat Report on his website, a document classified as top secret by the Government of India and written by two Indian army officers in 1963 to examine India's defeat in the Sino-Indian War.