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- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
In 1980s Burma, the British ambassador’s son goes missing. Discovered in the north of the country, Michael Atwood is in imminent danger, trapped between sides fighting a bitter civil war and with no way of getting back to Rangoon....
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
As the Second World War rages, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma and the British rulers prepare to flee. But the human legacy of the British Empire will be left behind in the shape of sixty-two Anglo-Burmese children, born...
From The Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Era(s): 1940s and 1950s
The book traces the author’s life from his Eden-like upbringing, his time at the University in Mandalay when the government started clamping down, and finally his time at Cambridge University. A fascinating and gripping of life in Burma, and...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
In these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma’s borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land. Here she celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, actors and everyday people...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2012 - 2016
After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012 – just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Rangoon
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Belle Hatton has embarked upon an exciting new life far from home: a glamorous job as a nightclub singer in 1930s Burma, with a host of sophisticated new friends and admirers. But Belle is haunted by a mystery from...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Mandalay
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Eva Gatsby has often wondered about her grandfather Lawrence’s past, and exactly what happened to him in Burma during the Second World War. But it is only when Eva’s job as an antiques dealer suddenly requires a trip to...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), China
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
LOOKING FOR A NEW EXPERIENCE? TRY MURDER … Bored of the ‘mango smoothie’ trail and keen to spice up their Facebook albums, and maybe their sex lives, Jake and Will take a tour into China’s jungle borderland with Burma....
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Guy Delisle’s newest travelogue revolves around a year spent in Burma (also known as Myanmar) with his wife and son. Burma is notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control: where scissor-wielding censors monitor the papers,...
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