Bridge on the River Kwai 1st January 1970
POWs, after the surrender of Singapore are taken by their Japanes captors to build a bridge. The current edition is a nod to the film, the original title being The Bridge over the River Kwai.
Blogs in January 1970
The Glass Palace 1st January 1970
Beginning in 1885, with the British invasion of Mandalay and the capture of the Burmese king and queen, and encompassing over 100 years to modern-day India and Burma (Myanmar), Amitav Ghosh has created in The Glass Palace a monument...
Border Run 1st January 1970
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....
Golden Earth 1st January 1970
“a simple blueprint for Utopia” – the best travel book on Burma since World War II – despite travelling at a time of massive internal insecurity, Norman Lewis still found the eternal Burma, where pagodas are the only punctuation...
Missing in Rangoon 1st January 1970
As foreigners rush into Myanmar with briefcases stuffed with plans and cash for hotels, shopping malls and high rises, they discover the old ways die hard. Vincent Calvino’s case is to find a young British-Thai man gone missing in...
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