Peacemaker

U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s

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<p><b>'A wonderful subject, beautifully written, evoking a world startlingly like and unlike our own' </b>Rory Stewart<br><br><b>'A brilliant portrait not just of a great and unjustly forgotten man, but of an entire age'</b> William Dalrymple<br><br><b>'Important reading at any time in history; essential in the world of today'</b> Peter Frankopan<br><br>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?<br><br>In <i>Peacemaker</i>, Thant Myint-U traces his grandfather's rise from schoolteacher in a small Burmese backwater in 1947 to celebrity at the centre of global of 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.<br><br>At once rigorous and hugely entertaining, <i>Peacemaker </i>is an intimate biography that not only attests to the power of hope, peace and individual actions in times of uncertainty, but also chronicles a golden age of diplomacy: a time when people believed that it was only by coming together that we could tackle the biggest threats posing humanity.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781838958954

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

232 x 149 x 31 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Atlantic Books