Perfect Hostage A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience

Name: Perfect Hostage A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience
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ISBN: 9781620876220

ISBN-10: 1620876221

ISBN-13: 9781620876220

Edition: 2013

Authors: Justin Wintle

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Burma is a country where, as one senior UN official puts it, “just to turn your head can mean imprisonment or death.”Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the world’s foremost inspirational revolutionary leaders. Considered to be Burma’s best hope for freedom, she has waged a war of steadfast nonviolent opposition to the country’s vicious militant regime. Because of her resistance to the brutality of the Burmese government, she has been under house arrest since 1989.She has endured failing health, vilification through the Burmese media, and cruel imprisonment in one of the world’s most dreadful and inhumane jails. Suu Kyi has fought every hardship the junta could put her through, yet she has never…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Justin Wintle has a degree in Modern History from Oxford. He is the author of Perfect Hostage, Romancing Vietnam, The Vietnam Wars, Furious Interiors , and the Rough Guide histories of China, Islam, and Spain. He is a contributor to the Financial Times, The Sunday Times , and The Independent .



Illustrations


Principal Burmese Personae


Glossary (including acronyms)


Map


Prologue



Land and Father



At the Shwedagon



The Shwe Pyidaw



After the Mongols



The Salami Wars



British Burma



Saturday's Child



From Campus Oddball to National Hero (aged 20)



'1300': The Year That Never Was



Desperate Times, Desperate Remedies



Bo Teza: Reluctant Collaborator



Snakes, I adders and a Wife



Old Enemies, New Friends



Getting There



The Daughter



19th July



The Golden Rain Is Brown



An Indian Idyll: The 'Ugly One' Takes Wing



The Daughter of Some or Other Burmese General



Things Fall Apart



Between Three Continents



Thimphu, Kyoto, Simla



Sixteen Months



Number One and Number Nine



White Bridge, Red Bridge



8.8.88



Shadow of the Hundred Flowers



Digging In



Squaring Up



Suu Kyi's Tightrope



Danubyu



The Door Slams Shut



The Political Madonna



Egg on the Generals' Faces



Soldiers at the Gate



Famously Alone



Freedom on a Leash



The Saddest Thing



The Widowed Road to Depayin



Back to Mandalay


Postscript: The Monks' Revolt


Acknowledgements


Sources/Further Reading/Websites


Index