The truly extraordinary life story of Bhumibol, King of Thailand, who for the last fifty years has been the monarch of one of the most troubled and exotic kingdoms of the modern world has sold over 6,000 copies in hardback and is now available for the first time in an affordable paperback edition.
Brought up in the west, Bhumibol acceded to the Thai throne when his brother King Ananda was assassinated, and was immediately
confronted, at the age of 19, with a task that was dangerous and almost unimaginably difficult. Not only was his position insecure - he was suspected both domestically and internationally of engineering his brother's murder - but the country he hardly knew was a crucible of conflicting ideas and influences.
- ISBN10 1841194514
- ISBN13 9781841194516
- Publish Date 27 September 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Constable
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English