When Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, died in her sleep amid the jungles of North Borneo in 1960, she was found surrounded by letters. Not, as one may expect, from her husband, the ...

Hope Robinson's husband was a prisoner of war in Thailand, working on the Burma Railway During World ... wishes of the War Office - which saw 5,000 letters of thanks and hope delivered to her.

Her bohemian lifestyle fascinated a young Aung San Suu Kyi, now 77 and who was born in a corner of Southeast Asia, as she recalled in her book, “Letters from Burma.” Living up to her ideal of ...