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Peacemaker : U Thant, the United Nations and the untold story of the 1960s
Thant Myint-U2025
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In December 1971, after having stepped down as the United Nations' longest-serving Secretary-General, U Thant was ranked the sixth 'most admired man' in America. So why is he largely forgotten today? In 'Peacemaker', Thant Myint-U traces his grandfather's rise from schoolteacher in a small Burmese backwater in 1947 to celebrity at the centre of global politics just two decades later. He reveals U Thant's integral yet forgotten roles in some of the twentieth centuries' most critical crises - from battling white supremacist mercenaries in the Congo and mediating a peaceful end to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 to ensuring the ceasefire held after the 1967 Six-Day War - and details the shifting world order that U Thant affected.
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Thant Myint-U, author
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London : Atlantic Books, 2025.
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384 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781838958947 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
352.113092352.113B
Language:
English
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BRN:
8829971
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