The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma by Farrar, Straus and Giroux $15.00
What do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about its present and even its future? For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma--through sanctions and tourist boycotts--only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship.Now...
Long Way Back to the River Kwai: Memories of World War II by Arcade Publishing $12.95
Loet Velmans was 17 when the Germans invaded his native Holland in 1940.Almost immediately, he and his family decided to escape to London, which they did on board the Dutch Coast Guard cutter, Seaman's Hope.Deciding theyt would be safer in the Far East, the family sailed to the Dutch East Indies-now Indonesia-where Loet joined the Dutch army.In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago,...
Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know by Oxford University Press, USA $16.95
In the past two decades, Burma/Myanmar has become a front-page topic in newspapers across the world. This former British colony has one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, yet it houses a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is and in and out of house arrest. It has an ancient civilization that is mostly unknown to Westerners, yet it was an important--and...
Letters from Burma by Fergal Keane $16.00
In these unforgettable letters, Aung San Suu Kyi, one of the world's most inspiring figures, reaches out beyond Burma's borders to paint a vivid and poignant picture of her native land. She celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, and everyday people who have supported the National League for Democracy, often at great risk to their own lives. She reveals how state oppression has...
Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 by David Hogan $22.95
Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked. His army's slaughter of Japanese troops ultimately liberated India and Burma. The first edition of Defeat Into...
Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia by Farrar, Straus and Giroux $27.00
Thant Myint-U’s Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world. From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable jungle, by hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms stretching a thousand miles from Calcutta...
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II by Skyhorse Publishing $14.95
George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war’s final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions of service. A substantial Epilogue, occasioned by the 50th anniversary of VJ-Day in...
The Tub: A story of Australian POWs on the Burma-Thailand Railway by BWM Books
"Mota Koi!"Slowly Tony walked to the edge of the platform. The Jap they called Rat-face made a long speech. Patiently, Tony listened. Suddenly Rat-face kicked him violently in the stomach - a silly thing to do, Tony thought in a detached way, to a man suffering from dysentery. Bent double with pain, Tony fell against the opposite bed platform and fouled the hut. At this there were angry outcries...
Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings by Michael Aris $17.00
Aung San Suu Kyi, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, has lived under house arrest since 1989. Nonetheless, despite her incarceration, Burma's "woman of destiny" has steadfastly refused to renounce her non-violent opposition of the country oppressive military junta. She is one of the world's greatest living defenders of freedom and...
Hell Is So Green: Search and Rescue over the Hump in World War II by Lyons Press $22.95
A rare, firsthand account of the rescue mission to aid the biggest air-supply of World War II. Lt. William Diebold served in the Army’s Air Transport Command in the China-Burma-India theater, saving the lives of the men who flew the Hump to keep allied China supplied against Imperial Japan. Often flying in zero-visibility, many pilots went down over the eastern Himalayas. Those who survived...