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Burma Books
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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as burma)
avg rating 4.03 — 89,943 ratings — published 2002
The Glass Palace (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as burma)
avg rating 4.00 — 28,375 ratings — published 2000
Burmese Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as burma)
avg rating 3.87 — 33,133 ratings — published 1934
The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as burma)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,567 ratings — published 2006
Finding George Orwell in Burma (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as burma)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,747 ratings — published 2004
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as burma)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,809 ratings — published 2002
The Piano Tuner (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as burma)
avg rating 3.63 — 16,707 ratings — published 2002
Burma Chronicles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as burma)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,212 ratings — published 2007
Letters from Burma (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as burma)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,686 ratings — published 1995
The Lizard Cage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as burma)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,211 ratings — published 2005
Saving Fish from Drowning (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as burma)
avg rating 3.47 — 33,249 ratings — published 2005
The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as burma)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,625 ratings — published 2019
Bamboo People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as burma)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,713 ratings — published 2010
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as burma)
avg rating 4.04 — 64,329 ratings — published 2013
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as burma)
avg rating 4.27 — 11,924 ratings — published 2014
Golden Earth: Travels in Burma (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as burma)
avg rating 4.06 — 220 ratings — published 1952
Miss Burma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as burma)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,437 ratings — published 2017
Freedom from Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as burma)
avg rating 4.00 — 947 ratings — published 1991
Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as burma)
avg rating 3.79 — 555 ratings — published 2010
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as burma)
avg rating 4.03 — 678 ratings — published 2009
Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know® (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as burma)
avg rating 3.52 — 216 ratings — published 2009
The Trouser People: A Story of Burma-In the Shadow of the Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as burma)
avg rating 4.02 — 289 ratings — published 2002
Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as burma)
avg rating 3.86 — 645 ratings — published 2011
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as burma)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,193 ratings — published 1992
Twilight over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess (Kolowalu Books (Paperback))
by (shelved 15 times as burma)
avg rating 3.84 — 732 ratings — published 1994
Elephant Run (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as burma)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,001 ratings — published 2007
A Well-Tempered Heart (The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as burma)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,117 ratings — published 2012
Burma Sahib (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as burma)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,241 ratings — published 2024
Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as burma)
avg rating 4.27 — 49 ratings — published 1994
Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as burma)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,093 ratings — published 1956
The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II – American Hump Pilots, Merrill's Marauders, and British Chindit Brigades in Action (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as burma)
avg rating 3.93 — 486 ratings — published 2003
The Making of Modern Burma (Volume 0)
by (shelved 12 times as burma)
avg rating 4.07 — 95 ratings — published 2001
The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as burma)
avg rating 3.75 — 743 ratings — published 2011
Smile As They Bow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as burma)
avg rating 3.58 — 388 ratings — published 2008
The King's Rifle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as burma)
avg rating 3.30 — 294 ratings — published 2007
A History of Modern Burma (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as burma)
avg rating 3.79 — 57 ratings — published 2009
Under the Dragon: Travels in a Betrayed Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as burma)
avg rating 3.73 — 394 ratings — published 1998
Dancing in Cambodia, at Large in Burma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as burma)
avg rating 3.97 — 697 ratings — published 1998
Lonely Planet Myanmar (Burma) (Travel Guide)
by (shelved 9 times as burma)
avg rating 3.98 — 321 ratings — published 1979
The Road Past Mandalay: A Personal Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as burma)
avg rating 4.43 — 341 ratings — published 1961
For Us Surrender is Out of the Question (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as burma)
avg rating 4.05 — 182 ratings — published 2010
The White Umbrella (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as burma)
avg rating 4.30 — 20 ratings — published 2002
Land of Jade. A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as burma)
avg rating 4.35 — 91 ratings — published 1995
Burmese Lessons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as burma)
avg rating 3.51 — 413 ratings — published 2009
Golden Parasol (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as burma)
avg rating 3.88 — 92 ratings — published 2013
Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as burma)
avg rating 3.69 — 122 ratings — published 2012
Forgotten Voices of Burma: The Second World War's Forgotten Conflict (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as burma)
avg rating 4.17 — 143 ratings — published 2009
Moon Princess, The: Memories of the Shan States (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as burma)
avg rating 3.85 — 27 ratings — published 2008
The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as burma)
avg rating 3.82 — 230 ratings — published 2016
Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as burma)
avg rating 4.23 — 130 ratings — published 2015
“Colonial Policy and Practice: A Comparative Study of Burma and Netherlands India by J. S. Furnivall
Page 178-179: It was not only unnecessary but imprudent to recruit Burmese [during the time Burma was part of the British Empire]. There could be little reliance on troops raised from among a people with no divisions of caste but united in religion, race and national sentiment … Obviously security required that the Burmese should be disarmed and debarred from military service. The Karens and other minor tribes, however, might be expected to side with the British, and these have been recruited, even when an initial reluctance had to be dispelled, but it has always been easy to find reasons for withholding military training, even as volunteer cadets, from the great mass of the people.”
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Page 178-179: It was not only unnecessary but imprudent to recruit Burmese [during the time Burma was part of the British Empire]. There could be little reliance on troops raised from among a people with no divisions of caste but united in religion, race and national sentiment … Obviously security required that the Burmese should be disarmed and debarred from military service. The Karens and other minor tribes, however, might be expected to side with the British, and these have been recruited, even when an initial reluctance had to be dispelled, but it has always been easy to find reasons for withholding military training, even as volunteer cadets, from the great mass of the people.”
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“Mpelelezi wa Tume ya Dunia kutoka Israeli Daniel Yehuda Ben-Asher Ebenezer, Mhebrania aliyeishi Givat Ram, Jerusalem, na mke wake mrembo Hadara na mtoto wake mzuri Navah Ebenezer, alikuwa Ukanda wa Gaza siku alipopigiwa simu na Kiongozi wa Kanda ya Asia-Australia ya Tume ya Dunia U Nanda – kutoka Copenhagen kuhusiana na wito wa haraka wa kuonana na Rais wa Tume ya Dunia. Yehuda aliondoka usiku kwenda Yangon, Myama, ambapo alionana na U Nanda na kupewa maelekezo yote ya kikazi aliyotakiwa kuyafuata. Mbali na maelekezo yote ya kikazi aliyotakiwa kuyafuata, Nanda alimkabidhi Yehuda kachero wa Kolonia Santita Mandi Dickson Santana (bila kujua kama Mandi ni kachero wa Kolonia Santita) ili amsindikize mpaka stendi ya mabasi ya Maubin, nje ya Yangon. Baada ya hapo Yehuda alisafiri mpaka Copenhagen ambapo yeye na wenzake walikabidhiwa Operation Devil Cross, ya kung’oa mizizi ya Kolonia Santita duniani kote. Yehuda alifanya kosa kubwa kuonana na kachero wa Kolonia Santita Mandi Santana! Kwa sababu hiyo, sauti na picha ya Yehuda vilichukuliwa, watu wengi walikufa katika miji ya Copenhagen na Mexico City.”
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