Peacemaker
U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s
'A wonderful subject, beautifully written, evoking a world startlingly like and unlike our own' Rory Stewart<BR><BR>'A brilliant portrait not just of a great and unjustly forgotten man, but of an entire age' William Dalrymple<BR><BR>'Important reading at any time in history; essential in the world of today' 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 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 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, Peacemaker 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.
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