That’s it with Thai schooling, isn’t it?
‘A Peace to End All Peace’, David Fromkin’s magisterial account of how the modern Middle East was created from the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire before, during and after the First World War, has recently been re-published 20 years after the original version came out. And while I’m telling people what a cracking good read it is, the comment I almost invariably get from Thais is:
What does the title mean?