Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare

Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare
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The definitive portrait of Pol Pot, the enigmatic man behind the most terrifying regime of modern times Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for oppression. In the three-and-a-half years of his rule, more than a million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were executed or died from hunger and disease. A supposedly gentle, carefree land of slumbering temples and smiling peasants became a concentration camp of the mind, a slave state in which absolute obedience was enforced on the 'killing fields'. Why did it happen? How did an idealistic dream of justice and prosperity mutate into one of humanity's worst nightmares? Philip Short, the biographer of Mao, has spent four years travelling the length Cambodia, interviewing surviving leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge movement and sifting through previously closed archives. of lesser figures speak for the first time at length about their beliefs and motives.
Country USA
Brand John Murray
Manufacturer John Murray Publishers Ltd
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780719565694
Model 0719565693
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780719565694
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	John Murray
Manufacturer	John Murray Publishers Ltd
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780719565694
Model	0719565693
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780719565694
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare

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