· In Perfect Hostage, the most thorough biography of Suu Kyi to date, Justin Wintle tells both the story of the Burmese people and the story of an ordinary person who became a hero. Related collections and offersBook Edition: Proprietary. Reviewed in the United States on Octo. Verified Purchase. Justin Wintle has produced a volume that is wide in scope and rich in detail. Readers will be getting more than a life of Aung San Suu Kyi. Wintle introduces briefly the immediate and long term history of Burma, the life of Bogyoke Aung San, Suu Kyi's father, and the story of how a brutal dictatorship came to rule Burma and rename it /5(30). · Justin Wintle’s Perfect Hostage – A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi is not a book with a particularly perfect title. It sounds like it will be a simply a biography, and perhaps a rather fawning one, of a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, perhaps erring on the side of hero worship. In fact Justin Wintle’s book presents much more than this/5.
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 been under house arrest since Elected Prime Minister, she was prevented from taking. Perfect Hostage: A Life Of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner Of Conscience|Justin Wintle, Dermatology|Richard K. Winkelmann, Public Philosophy: Essays On Morality In Politics|Michael J. Sandel, Works: With An Introd. By W.E. Henley (V.2) ()|Tobias George Smollett. Perfect Hostage: A Life Of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner Of Conscience|Justin Wintle, 30 Days of Meditation: Fun Techniques for Beginners (Relaxation Meditation) (Volume 1)|Inbar Shahar, NATO's first blood: air war over Bosnia|James R. (ed) HILL, Escaping|Eileen Vortia.
Resource Information. The item Perfect hostage: a life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's prisoner of conscience, Justin Wintle represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Anaheim Public Library. This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches. Justin Wintle’s Perfect Hostage – A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi is not a book with a particularly perfect title. It sounds like it will be a simply a biography, and perhaps a rather fawning one, of a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, perhaps erring on the side of hero worship. In fact Justin Wintle’s book presents much more than this. Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi. Reviewed by Bertil Lintner. Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, by Justin Wintle. Hutchinson and Random House. pages. £ She has been likened to Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, even Mahatma Gandhi, whose philosophy of nonviolence she has espoused.
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