Revival, Renewal and Reinvention: The Complex Life of Thailand’s Monarch
Paul M. Handley, The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. 498pp.
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