Just by incident I stumbled on this book, a brand new and expanded and adopted version of an earlier one. Written by B.J.Terwiel, a Dutch professor in Thai language and history, taught in Leiden/NL and the later years in Goettingen/DE, both very famous for East-Asian studies. It has over 300 pages and price is 795 THB, edited in Thailand , by Riverbooks.

A mainly scientific and objective description (as he compares both Thai and Burmese and other reports on main events in history) from the early Sukhothai/Ayuttaya period up till last years demo's by yellows and reds (a picture of a ceased army tank for the Democrazy Monument is on the frontpage). His last chapter gives an overview in which he compares his diffferent views (and all the problems research in these matters gives in Thailand) with the state-sanctioned Thai schoolbooks texts.

It will interest only a few of you, but every now and then there are questions about history. It is well written, not too dry-scientific and has some vivid descriptions f.e. of daily life then at the court and in the streets of Ayuttaya. Chapters on all the Chakri-dynasty 9 members, etc. If you really want to delve into other facts about this loveable country.

Last edtion sold out pretty quickly and books edited in Thaild tend not to be easily available elsewhere.

Thanks for the information, pong. I looked up the Riverbooks site and noted the full title of the book is Thailand