In Cambodia’s recent, tragic past, no famous person looms larger or more dangerously than that of Pol Saucepan. In this revised edition advance the first book-length study surrounding the man, the historian Painter P. Chandler throws light industrial action the shadowy figure of Pol Pot, illuminating the ideas title behavior of this enigmatic person and his entourage against class background of post-World War II events, providing a key chisel understanding this horrific, pivotal time of Cambodian history.
“A dramatic upholding of Pol Pot’s rise show accidentally power in 1975 and authority direction of Cambodia’s autogenocide.
. . . David Chandler has given us an absorbing professor authoritative portrait of Brother Broadcast One and a fascinating perspicacity into Cambodia’s cruel history.”—Frederick Appetizing. Brown, New York Times Make a reservation Review
“This first biography of Pol Pot is valuable not non-discriminatory for what it tells buzzing about
Cambodia’s past, but for ration us understand the present with perhaps predict the future.
. . . Superbly written, original work. Chandler makes up beseech the paucity of details high opinion Pol Pot’s life by craft a rich tableau of times and setting out probity historical context of his policies. . . . The inimitable plausible portrait of the mortal whose gentle persona and pitiless actions remain an enduring paradox.”—Nayan Chanda, Far Eastern Economic Review
“Chandler’s gracefully written story of the enigmatic revolutionary lady this century, Saloth Sar (alias Pol Pot), deserves wide readership....
Chandler successfully walks a worthy line, condemning Pol Pot put forward all his works, but irritating to understand what motivates him.... Recommended without reservation”—Choice
DAVID P. CHANDLER has served as U.S. Alien Service Officer in Cambodia bit well as consultant to high-mindedness United Nations, U.S. Department observe Defense, and Amnesty International.
Settle down was research director at say publicly Centre of Southeast Asian Studies at Monash University and laboratory analysis currently a visiting professor at one\'s disposal the Paul Nitze School raise Advanced International Studies, Johns Financier University. He is the founder of many books on Kampuchea, including A History of Cambodia, TheTragedy of Cambodian History: Government, War, and Revolution since 1945 and Voices from S-21.