{"product_id":"peacemaker","title":"Myint-U Thant: Peacemaker [2025]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A wonderful subject, beautifully written, evoking a world startlingly like and unlike our own' \u003c\/b\u003eRory Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brilliant portrait not just of a great and unjustly forgotten man, but of an entire age'\u003c\/b\u003e William Dalrymple\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Important reading at any time in history; essential in the world of today'\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Frankopan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePeacemaker\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once rigorous and hugely entertaining, \u003ci\u003ePeacemaker \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Myint-U, Thant","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51776839418195,"sku":"9781838958954","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Good","offer_id":52817849614675,"sku":"XG81838958954","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":52808810758483,"sku":"XE81838958954","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/thant-myint-u-myint-u-thant-peacemaker-2025-9781838958954-1190777410.jpg?v=1768833903","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/peacemaker","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}