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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846043734 | ISBN 10: 1846043735
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Released from house arrest in 2010, she led her party to a dramatic victory in Burma’s first free general election in a generation. Acclaime ... more
View book details£9.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9786167339559 | ISBN 10: 6167339554
Burma’s Spring documents the struggles of ordinary people made extraordinary by circumstance. Rosalind Russell, a British journalist who came to live in Burma with her family, witnessed a time of unprecedented change in a secretive country that had b ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847081896 | ISBN 10: 1847081894
On 2 May 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. The cyclone wreaked untold havoc, but the regime, in an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions, blocked international aid from entering the country, and provided little ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781905379620 | ISBN 10: 1905379625
It is almost 60 years since the Karen took up arms against the Burmese dictatorship to fight for an independent homeland, but theirs is a nationalist struggle that shows no sign of exhaustion. Secret Genocide is a scholarly book on the ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141039497 | ISBN 10: 0141039493
Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta. In 1995 she was freed from six years' house arrest in Ragoon, where she was held as a prisoner of c ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846041433 | ISBN 10: 1846041430
"Aung San Suu Kyi is a remarkable and courageous human being. Listen to her voice and be inspired... Burma is the next South Africa."(Archbishop Desmond Tutu) Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi stands alongside Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lam ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099491156 | ISBN 10: 009949115x
Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi is an iconic figure, and the best-known prisoner of conscience alive today. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, at great personal cost she has steadfastly opposed B ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9789745240506 | ISBN 10: 9745240508
A new memoir of the author's journeys among the brave indegenous peoples of some of Asia's most remote and violent regions. Knowledgably obsessed with Burma's struggle for freedom, American artist/activist Mirante breaks laws and infiltrates borders, ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780007127054 | ISBN 10: 0007127057
At the age of 53, Shelby Tucker set out to cross Burma on foot from China to India when land access to Burma was forbidden. Tucker had a rucksack, a diary and some inaccurate maps. He recruited a 6ft 4" Swede, Mats, whom he had met on the train ... more
View book details£24.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780745315416 | ISBN 10: 0745315410
The Burmese Civil War began 12 weeks after Britain granted Burma independence in 1948 and has continued ever since. This book defines its core causes for readers who are new to the subject or baffled by its complexities. It shows how Burman "He ... more
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