For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question

In 2006 Mac McClelland arrived as a volunteer in Thailand and unexpectedly found herself living with associates of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization engaged in battling Burma''s dictatorship. Her staggering story explores the world''s longest-running war seen from the point of view of her housemates refugees who risk their lives documenting their government''s secret ethnic-cleansing campaign. Intensely engaging and extensively researched For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question is an intimate account of McClelland''s time among Burmese rebels -- whose country she discovers shares surprising historical and contemporary entanglements with our own.