Perfect Hostage - Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma and the Generals

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Wintle
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.02.2008
• EAN: 9780099491156
• ISBN: 978-0-09-949115-6
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Arrow Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, Political oppression and persecution, Myanmar (Burma), Revolutionary groups and movements