PeacemakerIn 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? 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 politics just two decades later. He reveals U Thant's integral yet forgotten roles in some of the

Imperial decline

He has spent time with the Russians who struggle on in the harsh conditions of the taiga forest

He'll teach Eric a few tricks

sharing and influencing each other's cuisine and leaving their culinary stamp

animals and loved ones

We talk about people behaving like sheep

the year of love and hate

When Eben requests access to Elena's diaries at the National Library where the twins work

They are to be her charges for a month: a boy and two girls badly in need of some love

Returning us to the tumultuous events and ideas of the eighteenth century

Berlin and more

Burkard has never given a full account of these journeys