 A 670-page long 4-volume history, this book, compiled over two years by an elderly Mahbub at the age of 73 to 75, is often considered as the first documented history on the subject.Mahbub visited hundreds of villages all over Bangladesh and interviewed several hundred people to collect information about the guerrilla warfare as well as the conventional war.Another book along this line, titled "Bangaleer Samorik Oitijhya" (The Military Tradition of the Bengalis), published recently contains unpublished writings of Mahbub as well as old entries from "Paltan Jiboner Smriti.