The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma (82 page)

My great-grandparents on my father’s side, both children of court officials, after the fall of the kingdom.

My maternal grandfather, U Thant, at Rangoon University in 1927.

General Aung San in London for talks with Clement Attlee’s government in 1947. (© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS)

Burma’s first post-independence prime minister, U Nu, in 1948. (© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS)

Army chief General Ne Win (far left) and Burmese diplomats at the War Office in London in 1948. (© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS)

Aung San Suu Kyi (right) with my mother, Aye Aye Thant, at a party at our house in New York in 1970.

Burmese troops parading past the statues of long-dead kings in 2006. (AFP/Getty Images)

About the Author

Thant Myint-U was a senior officer in the executive office of the United Nations Secretary General. He has worked for UN peacekeeping operations in Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia. He was educated at Harvard and at Trintiy College, Cambridge, where he was subsequently made a Fellow.

He is the author of
The Making of Modern Burma,
and
The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma
.

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