A few months ago, my review of Phil Thornton’s Restless Souls - a book about Mae Sot and the Thai-Burma border - was published by The Oxonian Review of Books. The review is long and interpretative, and, fortunately, has much more detail than permitted in most “academic” review formats.
For interested New Mandala readers, my review is available as a PDF by clicking on this link: Restless Souls – Reviewed by Nicholas Farrelly
Other perspectives on this fascinating book come from Burma-watchers David Scott Mathieson (The Irrawaddy) and Bertil Lintner (Asia Times). As always, they are both well worth a read.
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1 New Mandala » Phil Thornton on General Bo Mya // Dec 29, 2006 at 10:36 pm
[...] Australian journalist Phil Thornton has written an article in The Nation about recently deceased Karen National Union leader, General Bo Mya. The article is based on interviews conducted for Thornton’s book, Restless Souls. [...]
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