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Leelas said: This is without a doubt the best introduction out there to Burmese history, and. The River of Lost Footsteps by Thant Myint-U - A Striped Armchair The River of Lost Footsteps by Thant Myint-U (thoughts). as a child my . 5 days ago at 22:43. The River of Lost Footsteps | Fifty VissI found The River of Lost Footsteps to be a good book , although not matter-of-fact entirely, a good introduction into the entangled politics and complicated modern history of Burma. . kabbasetu : Short Review: The River of Lost Footsteps Thant Myint-U ;s first best seller, The River of Lost Footsteps , is a book on modern (colonial and post-colonial) Burma. The Top-Rated App for Readers. I am a big fan of nonfiction books about Burma, so when I heard about The River of Lost Footsteps by Thant Myint-U, I just to request it from my library. A big fat book about the 14th Army campaign against the Nips and a memoir or two, one from a poor bastard on the Burma Railway, one PBI who actually . To be honest I haven ;t been able to maintain full concentration throughout the book – especially in the passages dealing with . It ends with a persuasive argument for engagement over isolation (.....) This is a book that is likely to have Burma . What do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma ;s past tell us about its present and even its future? For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been . The River of Lost Footsteps : Histories of Burma - Reviewing Books . Analysis of Burma has been "singularly ahistorical," Thant Myint-U ( The Making of Modern Burma ), a senior officer at the U.N., observes. Download The River of Lost Footsteps : A Personal History of Burma . In this book he writes about the Burmese recent history in a way that forces us PC (i.e