Blood, Dreams and Gold: the changing face of BurmaRICHARD COCKETT (YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 296 PP, £18.99)Tablet bookshop price £17.10 • Tel 01420 592974
Few books on Burma attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of all the key aspects of this complex, multi-ethnic, multi-religious nation that has suffered at the hands of one of the world’s most brutal military dictatorships for over half a century and has endured civil war in one part of the country or another since independence in 1948. Most focus on one specific angle – either the life of Burma’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the struggle for democracy led by her followers in central Burma, or the plight of one particular ethnic group or another around Burma’s peripheries. Blood, Dreams
04 February 2016, The Tablet
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