General Ne Win

Robert Taylor one of the most prominent scholars in Myanmar studies has written an illuminating study of Ne Win the most enigmatic and controversial of the first generation of post-independence Southeast Asian leaders and how he steered a then largely unknown country Burma (now Myanmar) through the Cold War years. This book by perhaps the only foreign political analyst to live in Burma under Ne Win is a significant contribution to the historiography of Myanmar and its unnoticed role in the Cold War in Asia. -- Associate Professor Ang Cheng Guan Head of Graduate Studies S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Nanyang Technological University Singapore.