{"product_id":"9781838958947","title":"Peacemaker","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 twentieth centuries' most critical crises - from battling white supremacist mercenaries in the Congo and mediating a peaceful end to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 to ensuring the ceasefire held after the 1967 Six-Day War - and details the shifting world order that U Thant affected.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Thant \/ Myint-U","offer_id":57314529280374,"sku":"9781838958947","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1208\/4146\/files\/9781838958947.jpg?v=1771323894","url":"https:\/\/chepstowbooks.co.uk\/products\/9781838958947","provider":"Chepstow Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}