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.Letters from Burma
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by: Aung San Suu Kyi

July 31, 1997
What a fantastic book. Aung San Suu Kyi led her democratic party to victory in the first supposedly open Burmese Elections in the nineteen eighties. Since then her party has been victimised, the fascist government refusing to let them come to power, and she has been under house arrest for much of the time since. She has been cut off from her family in England and has suffered much (her husband died of cancer while she was under house arrest). In this series of letters written for a Japanese newspaper, she sums up her life, her achievements, her feelings about Burma and its state over the course of a year.
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.Myanmar (Burma) (Lonely Planet Country Guide)
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by: Robert Reid, Michael Grosberg

October 01, 2005
What a fantastic book. Aung San Suu Kyi led her democratic party to victory in the first supposedly open Burmese Elections in the nineteen eighties. Since then her party has been victimised, the fascist government refusing to let them come to power, and she has been under house arrest for much of the time since. She has been cut off from her family in England and has suffered much (her husband died of cancer while she was under house arrest). In this series of letters written for a Japanese newspaper, she sums up her life, her achievements, her feelings about Burma and its state over the course of a year.
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.Under the Dragon: A Journey Through Burma
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by: Rory MacLean

March 20, 2008
This is a poignant, sympathetic and deeply moving read. With grace and style the author has woven together living voices from a lost land.
If you are thinking of visiting Burma, this is a book to read before you go. Because no one should merely be a tourist in their tragedy. If you would never visit Burma under present circumstances, then this is a book to read. Because the people need you to hear their voice. And if you have already visited Burma, then you should read this book. Because in it's sadness it is filled with beauty and perfume and peace.
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.Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
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by: Norman Lewis

August 29, 2003
Here, Lewis visits Burma soon after the end of WWII, spurred on by the knowledge that the complex political climate will soon make it impossible to visit the country. Even so, he has difficulties navigating his way round the country, dogged by the opposing needs of bureaucracy, the military and the problems of native insurgents of all political creeds. His work is beautiful and poignant. His hope at the end of the book that the Burmese will overcome their differences and take pride in their nationality and what makes them so unique, seems so much more tragic given the contemporary knowledge we have of the harsh and brutal military regime in Burma, their appalling human rights record and the recent purges by the government.
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.Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed
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by: Alan Rabinowitz

November 13, 2007
Here, Lewis visits Burma soon after the end of WWII, spurred on by the knowledge that the complex political climate will soon make it impossible to visit the country. Even so, he has difficulties navigating his way round the country, dogged by the opposing needs of bureaucracy, the military and the problems of native insurgents of all political creeds. His work is beautiful and poignant. His hope at the end of the book that the Burmese will overcome their differences and take pride in their nationality and what makes them so unique, seems so much more tragic given the contemporary knowledge we have of the harsh and brutal military regime in Burma, their appalling human rights record and the recent purges by the government.
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.India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power
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by: Pamela Mountbatten, India Hicks

July 26, 2007
Pamela takes us through some of the most critical moments in Indian History. She did justice to the Great men who were around her during that time. She did it with the qualities most admired by them - Honesty and courage. Thanks Pamela. While reading my book, it felt to me like reading the diary of a person very close to my heart.
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.The Gentleman in the Parlour (Vintage classics)
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by: W.Somerset Maugham

September 06, 2001
Pamela takes us through some of the most critical moments in Indian History. She did justice to the Great men who were around her during that time. She did it with the qualities most admired by them - Honesty and courage. Thanks Pamela. While reading my book, it felt to me like reading the diary of a person very close to my heart.
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.Burma Insight Guide (Insight Guides)
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from: APA Publications Pte Ltd,Singapore

January 28, 2005
Pamela takes us through some of the most critical moments in Indian History. She did justice to the Great men who were around her during that time. She did it with the qualities most admired by them - Honesty and courage. Thanks Pamela. While reading my book, it felt to me like reading the diary of a person very close to my heart.
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.Myanmar - Burma Nelles Map (Nelles Maps)
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from: Nelles Verlag GmbH

June 26, 2006
Pamela takes us through some of the most critical moments in Indian History. She did justice to the Great men who were around her during that time. She did it with the qualities most admired by them - Honesty and courage. Thanks Pamela. While reading my book, it felt to me like reading the diary of a person very close to my heart.
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.Burmese (Lonely Planet Phrasebook)
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by: David Bradley

October 01, 2001
Pamela takes us through some of the most critical moments in Indian History. She did justice to the Great men who were around her during that time. She did it with the qualities most admired by them - Honesty and courage. Thanks Pamela. While reading my book, it felt to me like reading the diary of a person very close to my heart.
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