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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)

by Loung Ung

One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the... (more)

Stay Alive, My Son

by John Man, Pin Yathay

A personal account by a man whose family was forced by the Khmer Rouge in April 1975 to leave Phnom Penh. Moved from camp to camp, he and thousands of others worked in the fields becoming diseased and malnourished. To save himself, Yathay was forced to leave behind his sole surviving child.

The Stone Goddess (First Person Fiction)

The Stone Goddess (First Person Fiction)

by Minfong Ho

When Sophy and her older siblings are ripped away from their family by the cruel Khmer Rouge and sent to work in a children's labor camp, Sophy bears witness to innumerable tragedies, paying too dear a price. After the Vietnamese army liberates Cambodia, Sophy returns to her mother's village, where they decide to seek refuge in America. Upon arriving in America, Sophy struggles to adjust to life in a completely... (more)

The Gate (Vintage)

by Franc?ois Bizot

In 1971 a young French ethnologist named Francois Bizot was taken prisoner by forces of the Khmer Rouge who kept him chained in a jungle camp for months before releasing him. Four years later Bizot became the intermediary between the now victorious Khmer Rouge and the occupants of the besieged French embassy in Phnom Penh, eventually leading a desperate convoy of foreigners to safety across the Thai border. Out... (more)

Survival in the Killing Fields

by Haing Ngor

Nothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That's who I am," says Haing Ngor. And in his memoir, Survival in the Killing Fields, he tells the gripping and frequently terrifying story of his term in the hell created by the communist Khmer Rouge. Like Dith Pran, the Cambodian doctor and interpreter whom Ngor played in an Oscar-winning performance... (more)

The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79

The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79

by Ben Kiernan

What was the nature of the regime that turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields and murdered or starved to death 1.7 million of the country's eight million inhabitants? In this riveting book, the first definitive account of the Khmer Rouge revolution, a world renowned authority on Cambodia shows how an ideological preoccupation with racist and totalitarian policies led a group of intellectuals to impose genocide... (more)

Leaving Year Zero: Stories of Surviving Pol Pot's Cambodia

Leaving Year Zero: Stories of Surviving Pol Pot's Cambodia

by Richard Lunn

Anointed for BurialTodd Burke

Anointed for Burial

by Todd Burke, DeAnn Burke

The Anti-Chomsky Reader

by Peter Collier

This description is based on the MIT professor's writings on linguistics in the 1950s; but beginning with his criticism of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, Chomsky became much better known for his radical politics than for his theories of language. Over the past forty years he has gained a devoted following in the United States and Europe for his increasingly bitter--some say hysterical--censure of U.S. "crimes."... (more)

Brother Number One: A Political Biography

Brother Number One: A Political Biography

by David P. Chandler

In Cambodia's recent, tragic past, no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. Yet information about his life and career is largely inaccessible. In this first book-length study of the man, the historian David P. Chandler casts light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot, illuminating the ideas and behavior of this enigmatic man and his entourage against the background of post-World War II events,... (more)

Sideshow, Revised Edition: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia

Sideshow, Revised Edition: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia

by William Shawcross

In Sideshow, journalist Shawcross presents the first full-scale investigation of the secret and illegal war the United States fought with Cambodia from 1969 to 1973, paving the way for the Khmer Rouge massacres of the mid-70s.

De la dictature des Khmers rouges à l'occupation vietnamienne: Cambodge, 1975-1979 (Mémoires asiatiques)

De la dictature des Khmers rouges à l'occupation vietnamienne: Cambodge, 1975-1979 (Mémoires asiatiques)

by Khun Ke?n

Text: French

China, Cambodia, Vietnam TriangleWilfred G. Burchett

China, Cambodia, Vietnam Triangle

by Wilfred G. Burchett

My War with the Cia: The Memoirs of Prince Norodom SihanoukNorodom; Burchett, Wilfred Sihanouk

My War with the Cia: The Memoirs of Prince Norodom Sihanouk

by Norodom; Burchett, Wilfred Sihanouk

Cambodia, Pol Pot, and the United States: The Faustian Pact

Cambodia, Pol Pot, and the United States: The Faustian Pact

by Michael Haas

This provocative analysis of U.S. policy toward Cambodia illuminates issues that remain especially pertinent in the aftermath of the Cold War. Haas examines U.S. failures in Cambodia and traces them to a combination of an idealistic desire to remake the world in the American democratic image, a belief in U.S. omnipotence, and the realpolitik tradition of using power to advance U.S. interests whenever they seem to... (more)

Long live the 17th anniversary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea: SpeechPol Pot

Long live the 17th anniversary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea: Speech

by Pol Pot

De poort

by François Bizot

Cambodia year zero

by Franc?ois Ponchaud

Text: English, French (translation)

Stay Alive, My SonPin Yathay