Echoes from Forgotten Mountains Tibet in War and Peace

Echoes from Forgotten Mountains Tibet in War and Peace

Jamyang Norbu has taken the stories of forgotten Tibetans resistance fighters secret agents soldiers peasants merchants even street beggars and skillfully worked their myriad accounts into a single glorious memory history of the Tibetan struggle. He uses recollections from his own childhood to ease the reader into an immersive understanding of the complexity of Tibets modern history the Chinese invasion the uprisings in Kham and Amdo the formation of the Four Rivers Six Ranges Resistance Force the March 59 Lhasa Uprising the CIA supported Air Operations, the Nyemo peasant Uprising of 68/69 and the Mustang Guerilla Force in northern Nepal where Norbu later served.