Telling the story of war with an artist's touch for the nuances of character--his portrait gallery includes soldiers and diplomats busy at war-making, and above all the Laotians themselves as they realize they have been led down the garden path. Tis book is about secrecy and its illusions, and about the cruel sacrifice of small countries for the ...
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 ...
This is the story of a hidden war between the US and the communist powers in the neutral country of Laos, which led to the Vietnamese War. This book offers a full account of this conflict, based on access to previously closed files and interviews with intelligence players, military officers and government officials. The narrative describes the key ...
This is an autobiographical account of life in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, written by the Oscar-winning actor from "The Killing Fields", whose own experiences under the Khmer Rouge were more shocking than those of Dith Pran, the character he played. The Khmer Rouge, led by Maoist fanatics, laid waste to the social fabric of Cambodia, forcing ...
The story of the destruction of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge in The Killing Fields was horrifying, and the performance of Haing Ngor as Dith Pran was so forcefully real that it brought him an Academy Award. Now, Haing Ngor tells his own story, a tale of torment and flight from his oppressors in Cambodia.
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