Undaunted : my struggle for freedom and survival in Burma / Zoya Phan with Damien Lewis

Previously published: London ; New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009, with title Little daughter : a memoir of survival in Burma and the West.

Includes index.

About Burma -- Burma timeline -- Grandfather Bent Back -- The almost dying -- Touching the pig -- The bamboo people -- The flower children -- River of darkness -- Victory field -- The river spirits -- The naming -- Paradise lost -- Sleeping Dog Mountain -- The river of burning tears -- Under the big tree -- No refuge -- A time of darkness -- The journey home -- The new village -- The mission song -- Running from bullets -- Refugees again -- Mae La Camp : two tests -- Bangkok daze -- City girls -- Back into the land of evil -- The reawakening -- Children of darkness -- London, with Bwa Bwa -- In the footsteps of my father -- In the firing line -- The road home -- The final cut -- Epilogue -- The Phan Foundation -- Other organizations working to help free Burma.

Named Zoya by her father for the Soviet resistance fighter Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, who was executed by the Germans in World War II, Phan, a member of the Karen people of Myanmar, has a destiny that seems fated. The daughter of the general secretary of the Karen National Union (KNU) and a resistance fighter, Phan grew up at the heart of a struggle for democracy. Forced to flee her village at the age of 14 after an attack by the Burmese army, Phan and her family lived in refugee camps in Thailand. Phan eventually earned a charity scholarship to study in Bangkok, then studied in the United Kingdom and claimed full refugee status. Despite threats to her life and the assassination of her father, Phan has actively spoken out about the repression of the Karen people living in Burma. She has met with senior politicians worldwide and serves as the Burma Campaign UK's international coordinator for human rights.