17/17. Previous History Threads at www.projectmaje.org. My latest book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" (topics including WW2 Burma & post-coup revolutionary Chin State) is now available for pre-order (publication Nov. 2025) here: blueearbooks.com/where-the-mi...

16. Conflict researcher @hedstrom.bsky.social new study, "Reproducing Revolution: Women's Labor and the War in Kachinland" (2025) reveals an array of "roles and responsibilities" in wartime northern Myanmar. https//www.cornell...

15. Khin Mar Mar Kyi's "Invisible yet Invincible: Narratives of Women Fighting Dictatorship in Burma/Myanmar" (2024) & @altsean.bsky.social "Women’s Voices from the Revolution" ('25) present crucial viewpoints from the ongoing struggle for freedom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sqZ...

14. Nandita Haksar & Soe Myint co-authored "Resisting Military Rule in Burma (1988-2024), Story of Mizzima Media: Born in Exile, Banned in Myanmar" (2025), a first hand account of journalism & political struggle. frontline.thehindu.com/books/myanma...

13. "The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing" (2025) by @jwassers.bsky.social has Myanmar content. @liasciortino.bsky.social & Linn Lat Tar Yar edited "Living the Coup: Collective Diary of Daily Life in Myanmar" ('25) @SEAJunction obor.or.id/living-the-c...

12. Journalists Joe Freeman & @aungnaingsoeans.bsky.social co-wrote the important "Frontline Poets: The Literary Rebels Taking on Myanmar's Military" (2025) which describes the anti-coup revolutionary role of poets & poetry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMGU...

11. "Reshaping Rohingya Futures: Coping Strategies and Emerging Agencies" (2025) was edited by @nucubd.bsky.social. It compiles research on refugee resilience, digital empowerment & other issues of the Bangladesh border camps. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

10. Bertil Lintner & Hseng Noung Lintner's latest ethnic history is "Young Tigers: Chao Tzang Yawnghwe and the Shan Rebellion in Myanmar" ('25.) Francesco Buscemi's "Arms Politics: Becoming and Being a Weapon in the Borderlands of Myanmar" ('25) examines Shan St armed resistance.

9. "Mountain Rhododendron: A Chin Lady in Jade Land of Myanmar" (2025) is a novel about the lives of migrant workers in Hpakant, Kachin State, by Chin journalist Joel Ling.

8. In "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" Sam Dalrymple describes in depth the post-WW2 separation of independent Burma from the British Empire, with its lasting implications for borderlands & ethnic tensions. www.irrawaddy.com/culture/book...

7. Burma resource watcher @clarammond.bsky.social wrote an extraordinary political travel book, “On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar” (2024) which follows a trajectory of railway lines (neglected, built with forced labor) to reveal decades of military misrule & abuse.

6. The eagerly-awaited first book by engaging historian @lmbd1418.bsky.social "Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945" has recently been published (2025.) It relates the daring exploits of a Commando Brigade which included her grandfather. www.ospreypublishing.com/us/jungle-co...

5. Special Operations Executive (SOE) researcher Richard Duckett wrote his 4th book, "Jungle Warrior: Britain's Greatest SOE Commander" (2025) revealing the epic saga of Lt. Col. Edgar Peacock, who led guerrillas in WW2 Burma. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gom5...

4. Tank warfare expert @historybowsh.bsky.social debuted with definitive "Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma" in 2024, followed by another in-depth WW2 Burma account "Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945" in '25. Jack co-hosts @forgottenwarpod.bsky.social on WW2 Burma with eminent historian Robert Lyman.

3. Clive Branson was a British Communist painter, poet & tank commander who died in WW2 Burma's brutal Admin Box battle. His heroic story is in my new book & his poems were collected for 1st time in "The Selected Poems of Clive Branson" edited by Richard Knott, 2023.

2. OSS officer Peter K. Lutken Jr. fought in Kachinland; his exciting memoir "A Thousand Places Left Behind: One Soldier’s Account of Jungle Warfare in WWII" was posthumously published in 2023. Also in '23 Hannah Watson's WW2 Burma novel for young readers, "The Jungle War."

23/23. Links to my previous Burma History Threads & reports are at: www.projectmaje.org

22. China's state-owned China South Industries reportedly facilitates bomb manufacture for Myanmar Air Force. Anti-coup resistance in Myanmar & international supporters continue to call for #SanctionAviationFuel ban on fuel exports to Myanmar coup regime. www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/f...