The promise and Enigma of Burma
It is a complex story with resonance well beyond Myanmar, told with a historianâs sense of perspective and analysis and a writerâs gift for storytelling.
by Gautam Mukhopadhaya
Nov 29, 2019
2 minutes
Contemporary Myanmar's best known historian Thant Myint-U's latest book brings his series of books on Myanmar, beginning with his thesis on The Making of Modern Burma, up to date to the present. In the process he provides as complete a guide to understanding this captivating yet enigmatic country as possible.
It is a complex story with a resonance well beyond Myanmar, told with a historian's sense of perspective and
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