Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: March 1, 2005 | Copyright information

Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare. Philip Short. John Murray. [pounds sterling]25.00. xvi + 656 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6568-5. The author, for many years a foreign correspondent for the BBC, has had the benefit of talking to many of the leading figures in Cambodia's former Communist government. He has written what must be the definitive account in English of the nightmarish regime of 1975-1978, one that was led by Saloth Sar (a.k.a. Pol Pot) and one responsible for the deaths of some 1.5 million Cambodians. In all the evil annals of Communism no era, not even the 1920s and '30s in ...

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