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- ISBN13: 9781593762650
- Condition: New
- Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
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In 2006, Mac McClelland arrived as a volunteer in Thailand and found herself unexpectedly living with associates of a US-designated terrorist organization battling Burma’s dictatorship. Her staggering story explores the world’s longest-running war through her housemates, refugees who risk their lives documenting their government’s secret ethnic-cleansing campaign. Intensely engaging and extraordinarily 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 her own.
For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma’s Never-Ending War
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This book is not what you would expect from a non-fiction work about the history of Burma and the plight of its people. McClelland manages to make it personal to the reader, drawing many correlations to our way of life. Also, woven around the history and horrific facts of Burma, is a personal story of how the author spent time living with a group of Karen refugees in Thailand that provides a glimpse into the reality of their existence, thinking and day to day lives.
This is a moving story that will leave you wondering why you didn’t know about the atrocities in Burma committed by its ruthless and heartless regime that continue to this day.
Excellent reading!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is an eye-opening account into the current life of Burma refugees and I found appealing the raw style “For us Surrender is Out of the Question” is written in. The extensively researched historical details and McClelland’s candid personal stories make the book genuine and authentic. The deeply affecting stories and people I cannot forget. It is unusual to find such a compelling read and history lesson in one book.
Rating: 5 / 5
This was an incredibly informative book that vividly reveals the plight of the Karen refugees in Thailand and the situation in Burma. As enjoyable as it is disturbing. I can’t decide who to give the book to next, so I might have to buy some extra copies to pass out. The line-by-line writing is great and reads as if Mac was telling you this story over drinks in a bar. She chooses perfect details to bring the people and places alive. I could smell the sweat and curry, and feel the heat and mosquitoes.
The balance of history, stats, and personal narrative are expertly done. Just when I couldn’t take an account of the Burma situation any longer, you’d switch back to the narrative and make me laugh/cry. Mac’s personal narrative helps illustrate the refugees without going off on personal tangents that distract from the main issues.
Rating: 5 / 5
I loved the Mother Jones article and if the book is anything like the article, this book will be one of the greatest in human rights. The author’s description makes you feel as though you are there with her. It really moved me. Thank you for such an incredible insight on an issue that most people know, including myself, know nothing about.
Rating: 5 / 5
Who else writes like this? I can’t remember the last time something sounded so fresh and immediate. Reading this book was like being on the phone with my smart, cool friend who just came back from the refugee camp, and hearing her unvarnished stories, raw and genuine (“I’m a queen dork.” The Junta “sucks.” Or this, my favorite footnote: “?!”). Which is not to say it’s in the least bit juvenile or gratuitous, but that in Mac’s capable hands, even the longest stretches of political history percolate along, the way your favorite professor made even the dry stuff come alive.
But what made it a page turner for me was getting to know the refugees. The people, and Mac’s interactions with them, provide the warm counterbalance to the relentlessly horrific story of modern Burma. I was dying to learn what happens to them, and to the refugee camps, and Burma.
Just an utterly unforgettable book.
Rating: 5 / 5