June 2019 Issue Richard Cockett A Country in Limbo A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma By David Eimer LR
November 2017 Issue Richard Cockett Rohingya on the Edge Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim ‘Other’ By Francis Wade LR
October 2016 Issue Frank McLynn Down & Out in Nagaland Among the Headhunters: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival in the Burmese Jungle By Robert Lyman LR
June 2016 Issue Saul David Admin Nightmare Burma ’44: The Battle that Turned the War in the Far East By James Holland LR
May 2016 Issue Richard Cockett The Other Refugee Crisis The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Hidden Genocide By Azeem Ibrahim
November 2015 Issue John Keay Regilding the Pagoda Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma By Richard Cockett LR
November 2004 Issue Allan Massie Burmese Days One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A Memoir of Life and Death on the Burma-Thailand Railway By Ian Denys Peek LR
December 2004 Issue Jonathan Mirsky A Subversive Infusion Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop By Emma Larkin LR
August 2011 Issue John Keay The Road to Mandalay Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia By Thant Myint-U LR
August 2010 Issue Jonathan Mirsky After the Flood Everything is Broken: The Untold Story of Disaster Under Burma’s Military Regime By Emma Larkin LR
October 2012 Issue Richard Cockett Many Hills to Climb Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads By Benedict Rogers LR
June 2013 Issue John Keay On the Tiger Trail Golden Parasol: A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma By Wendy Law-Yone LR
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