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 as the leader of the Burmese democracy movement. As well as house arrest she has endured every kind of intimidation, including an attempt on her life in 2003. Yet if her exemplary fortitude has earned Aung San Suu Kyi world-wide admiration, inside Burma itself little has changed - as Justin Wintle's comprehensive biography makes hideously plain.

General Information

ISBN : 9780099491156
Publisher : Cornerstone
Imprint : Arrow Books Ltd
Weight (g) : 0.374
Publication date : 31 January 2008
Produced in : United Kingdom
Out of print date : 12 September 2023
Product Type : books

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Author : Justin Wintle
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 408
Dewey classification : 959.1053092
Pages : 512
BIC subject : Biography & autobiography: historical, political & military; Political leaders & leadership; Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -
Illustrations : map, ports.

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Justin Wintle was educated at Stowe School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he holds degrees in Modern History. The many books he has written include Romancing Vietnam: Inside the Boat Country, The VietNam Wars, Furious Interiors: Wales, R. S. Thomas and God and the Rough Guide histories of China, Islam and Spain. He has been a regular contributor to the Financial Times, the Sunday Times and the Independent, and in 1998 he became the recipient of an Arts Council Writers' Award. He lives in London.