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Perfect Hostage by Justin Wintle
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi is an iconic figure, and the best-known prisoner of conscience alive today. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, at great personal cost she has steadfastly opposed Burma's brutal military regime since 1988, when she emerged a ...Show more
Perfect Hostage : A life of Aung San Suu Kyi by Justin Wintle
Category: Biography
A biography of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, one of the world's most renowned freedom fighters and advocates of non- violence, and the figurehead for Burma's struggle for democracy. Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, she has dedicated her life to the liberation of her country. "From the Hardcover edition." ...Show more
Perfect HostageA Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience by Justin Wintle
Category: NON FICTION
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 considered to be Burma's best hope for freedom, and, because of her unwavering commitment to nonviolent resistance to the country's brutal military junta, she has bee ...Show more
THE CONCISE NEW MAKERS OF MODERN CULTURE by WINTLE, JUSTIN
Category: Culture
This book presents a 'Who's Who' of Western culture, from Woody Allen to Emile Zola...Containing four hundred essay-style entries, and covering the period from 1850 to the present, "The Concise New Makers of Modern Culture" includes artists, writers, dramatists, architects, philosophers, anthropologists ...Show more
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