Reviews

Nikkei Asia — Michael Vatikiotis — “How U Thant Made the Great Powers Pay Attention” — 17 December 2025

Foreign Affairs — G. John Ikenberry — “Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World" — December 2025

New Yorker — “Peacemaker” — 8 December 2025

India Today — Rajiv Bhatia — “The Quiet Diplomat” — 6 December 2025

Times Literary Supplement — Su Lin Lewis – “Burmese Days: How U Thant Rescued the UN” — 28 November 2025

Indian Express — Lakshmi Puri — “UN once mattered. It needs to go back to its roots”

29 November 2025

Morning Star — Paul Donovan – “Bringing the US to the UN” -  13 November 2025

Spectator (Australia) — William Dalrymple — “Favourite Biography of the Year” — 6 November 2025

The Hindu — Suhasini Haidar –“Forgotten men: the story of two peacemakers and their ideas of the world” — 6 November 2025

Indian Express — Pratap Bhanu Mehta – “Peacemaker: The forgotten U Thant gave the UN its moral voice” - 26 October 2025

Business Standard — Shyam Saran – “The peacemaker the world forgot: U Thant's UN and the Cold War's edge” - 22 October 2025

History Today — John Sidel – “Peacemaker” -  October 2025 

Literary Review — Piers Brendon — “From Myanmar to Manhattan: Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations, and the Untold Story of the 1960s” — September 2025

Bloomberg — Tim McLaughlin — “Can the UN Be Saved? Lessons From a Forgotten Secretary-General” — 26 September 2025

Daily Mail (UK) — Neil Armstrong “Peacemaker by Thant Myint-U: Gin-swilling Buddhist who averted World War III” - 19 September 2025

Foreign Policy — Bronwen Everill – “The Man Who Made the UN Cool” -12 September 2025

Irish Examiner — Jack Power – “A Leader We Could Do With Now” — 13 September 2025

Kirkus Reviews – “Peacemaker”— August 2025

Publishers Weekly – “Peacemaker” — 14 July 2025