The story of eight years in the brief life of Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung, a courageous Burmese journalist and editor. His political analyses helped guide the nation during a turbulent era marked by internal struggles to establish a democracy independent of Britain in the late 1930s and the Japanese Occupation of the 1940s. The memoir is written by U Chit Maung's wife, Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay, a resilient woman whose deep admiration and love for her uncompromising husband are captured here.
| ISBN: | 9780877277774 |
| Publication date: | 13th November 2008 |
| Author: | Ma Ma Le, Thanegi |
| Publisher: | Southeast Asia Program Publications an imprint of Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 204 pages |
| Series: | Studies on Southeast Asia |
| Genres: |
Biography: historical, political and military Political leaders and leadership Asian history Memoirs Biography: general |