{"id":3427,"date":"2021-11-30T16:22:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2023-06-08T18:41:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T18:41:44","slug":"author-deborah-ann-sheas-ode-to-her-father-captain-jack-shea-in-escape-from-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/?p=3427","title":{"rendered":"Author Deborah Ann Shea’s ode to her father Captain Jack Shea in Escape from Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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India has attained its independent state owing to sacrifices laid down by many officers, some of which are unknown to the world.\u00a0Author Debora Ann\u00a0Shea\u00a0makes an effort to bring forth the story of one such unsung officer \u2013\u00a0Commodore Jack\u00a0Shea\u00a0through her book Escape From Pakistan<\/strong>. The book was reacently launched in the capital at the Teen Murti Bhavan in the presence of\u00a0Chief Guest Vice Admiral Premvir Das (Retired) PVSM, UYSM, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book Escape From Pakistan is a pulse-pounding thriller that gives a first hand insight into the precarious times post partition in Pakistan, 1965, it is also a tender and inspiring story of\u00a0Captain Jack\u00a0Shea<\/strong>, who masterminded the escape, with brutal consequences to himself. Through her book,\u00a0Debora\u00a0makes a long-overdue tribute to her father\u00a0Commodore Jack\u00a0Shea\u00a0\u2013 a gallant mariner who epitomised courage, loyalty and survival against overwhelming odds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brushing off the dust of his early life as a child, dispossessed of parental love since birth, the book traverses through Jack\u2019s growing up years with his maternal grandparents. It throws light upon his life journey from a boy to a young man who joins the Royal Indian Navy, marries a pretty young teacher, Dorothy Hope and nurtures a wonderful family and a rewarding career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How life changes for this man as he is posted to Karachi, Pakistan as Naval Attach\u00e9 in the Indian High Commission a few months before the Indo\u2013Pak war of 1965, is journaled adhering to years of research and deep study along with\u00a0Debora\u2019s own memories of those days. It is an account of\u00a0Naval Attach\u00e9 Captain Jack\u00a0Shea\u00a0who was chosen for a mission to bring home safely the First Secretary at the High Commission who was dangerously close to being booked for espionage in Karachi. While he manages to bring the family back to New Delhi safe by cargo ship, he lands himself into deep trouble, gets battered, thrashed and lies in coma for months in a hospital in Karachi.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vice Admiral Premvir Das (Retd) (second from left) and Author Deborah Ann Shea (center) at the launch of book Escape from Pakistan <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As she presented her book in public,\u00a0author Debora Ann\u00a0Shea\u00a0said, \u201cI have longed for this day for years. I always wanted to do justice to the service that my father has done for our nation. The times we were at home and he was at his perilous duty are still vivid and Escape From Pakistan is just a written document of those bittersweet memories along with carefully examined archival resources, letters and diaries and various personal accounts.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story stirs one to think how trying times can crush the bones but not the undying spirit, if one has the will. Jack not only recovers, but completes his tenure in Karachi and goes on to receive the\u00a0Ati Vishisht Seva Medal\u00a0and\u00a0Bar\u00a0from the\u00a0President of India. He assumed command of the\u00a011th Destroyer Squadron, played a pivotal role in the Indo\u2013Pak war of 1971 and retired in 1976 as a Commodore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Priced at MRP \u20b9599.00 the book can be purchased online at Penguin<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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India has attained its independent state owing to sacrifices laid down by many officers, some of which are unknown to the world.\u00a0Author Debora Ann\u00a0Shea\u00a0makes an effort to bring forth the story of one such unsung officer \u2013\u00a0Commodore Jack\u00a0Shea\u00a0through her book Escape From Pakistan. The book was reacently launched in the capital at the Teen Murti […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[2071,2070,2072,2066,82,2073,2068,2069,2067],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-now","tag-author","tag-book","tag-debora-ann-shea","tag-escape-from-pakistan","tag-india","tag-indian-navy","tag-naval-attache-captain-jack-shea","tag-pakistan","tag-penguin-india"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msjunebug.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}