Clare Hammond, author of On the Shadow Tracks, did not love the trains she rode. But her exploration of Myanmar’s dilapidated tracks reveals the link between the railways and the military’s power, while documenting the lives on and around ramshackle trains.
Buried in Burma, Clive Branson’s antifascist legacy is found in his letters and a symphony. Arakan (Rakhine State) where he died has continued to be a killing ground.
Having survived a Spanish prison and borne witness to the Bengal Famine, Communist painter/poet Clive Branson becomes a World War II tank commander. A harrowing battle in Burma looms ahead.
A new essay in three parts by Edith Mirante, author of Burmese Looking Glass, about Clive Branson, a British Communist poet/painter who fought in the Spanish Civil War and was killed in Burma during the Second World War. Part 1 includes anti-colonial India and a love story.