About this title: To Destroy You Is No Loss is the story of the harrowing ordeal that followed the forced evacuation of Phnom Penh in 1975, of the loyalty and love that sustained Teeda Butt Mam and her family through four years of forced labor and their triumphant, incredibly daring escape. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780871131164ISBN:0871131161
Description: Good in Good jacket. Signed. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR! Book and Dust Jacket in Good condition. Reasonable wear. Still very usable. Clean mark-free interior! SHIPS W/IN 24 HOURS! FREE INSURANCE on all orders! E-mail notification! Careful, thorough packaging. Fast, personal service. No hassle, full refund return policy! COMBINE SHIPPING-TENS OF THOUSANDS OF OTHER BOOKS/CDs/MOVIES AVAILABLE! read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780871131164ISBN:0871131161
Description: Acceptable. Ex-library, general wear, has DJ but in plastic library cover, cover corners are slightly rounded at tips, very few interior markings aside from the usual library markings, good reading copy aKF DPL103009 All items shipped to US include delivery confirmation. Thanks for looking! read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780871131164ISBN:0871131161
Description: Fair in Fair jacket. Ex-Library 1987, First Edition, HB, Fair/Fair, Ex-Library stamps, pocket in rear, marker line on bottom page edge, stained page edges, d.j. taped to book, label on spine, edgewear, creased, 289 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Date Published: 1987-07
ISBN-13:9780871131164ISBN:0871131161
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Date Published: 1987-07
ISBN-13:9780871131164ISBN:0871131161
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780871131164ISBN:0871131161
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. A nice ex-library copy. All pages and cover clear except for a few library markings. Binding solid and tight. No creases. read more
"A warning: this book is true and it is REALLY intense and graphic. It will make you cry a lot. Only read it if you feel up to handling it. I read it for a history class at the Y and I LOVE this family that went through this. It made me want to learn more about everyone in all kinds of cultures and it gave me more of a sympathy for what some people go through."
"This was a thoroughly fascinating book and by far the best personal account of survival during the Pol Pot regime that I have read so far. Of the other 12 first-person stories that I've finished in the past year, only this book really attempted to put the survivor's experience into historical and cultural context, explaining some of the history and background to the Khmer Rouge nightmare and helping the reader understand how Khmer culture devolved during the communist nightmare (her portrayal of how Khmer marriage customs changed is particularly interesting). Teeda's experiences are not as harsh as Molyda Szymusiak's (The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood, 1975-1980) or Laurence Picq's (Beyond the Horizon: Five Years With the Khmer Rouge), but she managed to avoid death and severe privation through keen observation of what the Khmer Rouge considered worthy and what they punished. Perhaps the worst experience Teeda describes comes after her escape to the Thai border when she and her family are pushed into a minefield by Thai soldiers at the infamous Preah Vihear forced repatriation, the clearest and most detailed account of this incident that I've encountered. The author Joan Criddle must have done significant amounts of research in writing this book at a time when relatively little information on the Khmer Rouge was in print, but it is all presented in a literate and very readable style in the context of Teeda's tale. I'd rate this book above many other Khmer Rouge survival stories (although Chanrithy Him's When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge is also very worthwhile). It certainly eclipses badly-edited works such as Escape from the Killing Fields: One Girl Who Survived the Cambodian Holocaust, The Price We Paid: A Life Experience in the Khmer Rouge Regime, Cambodia and The Death and Life of Dith Pran."
"This was a terrible, wonderful book. I definitely didn't like it, but I'm very glad I read it. This book made me marvel that such atrocities could exist in a modern era, but more so that I could have been ignorant of them all this time. Seriously, I knew next to nothing about the "Cambodian Holocaust" as it is referred to in this book. The disregard for life on the part of Communist leaders in Cambodia was appalling and unfathomable. Really, how could such a thing happen? In this kind of book, I'm more interested in whether the writing gets in the way of the story or not, which is a pretty low bar to set. This author passed, although you certainly wouldn't read this book for the stunning prose. It was a very moving story and made me question so many things (both materialistic and ideological) that I take for granted in my life. It's really incredible what this familyi was willing to sacrifice for freedom."
"An absolutely heart wrenching, eye opening, detailed and accurate book on the war in Cambodia. This book gives you a side of the Vietnam war you've never seen. It's unbiased and factual yet maintains an easy to read narrative, except emotionally. Emotions aren't invoked to support a view or bias but are raw and powerful. There is no innocence, no victory, no good guys in this book, only tragedy."
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