Saturday, November 08, 2025

There is a reason why this book and this new movie are being released at this time and the premiere was in Toronto--

It isn't hard to guess the reason.

I was just wondering how it must have felt for Aung Zeya (later King Alaunghpaya) as a boy growning up in the Kabaw Valley to experience a Manipuri raid and I found this.

It's all there, except the sounds, the mud, the dirt, the screams, the rapes--the fear, the tears, common to war. https://www.youtube.c...