![]() Here, the former Khmer Rouge Head of State, Pol's brother-in-law and scores of lesser figures speak for the first time at length about their beliefs and motives. Why did it happen? How did an idealistic dream of justice and prosperity mutate into one of humanity's worst nightmares? Philip Short, the biographer of Mao, has spent four years travelling the length Cambodia, interviewing surviving leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge movement and sifting through previously closed archives. A supposedly gentle, carefree land of slumbering temples and smiling peasants became a concentration camp of the mind, a slave state in which absolute obedience was enforced on the 'killing fields'. In the three-and-a-half years of his rule, more than a million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were executed or died from hunger and disease. But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for oppression. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. The definitive portrait of Pol Pot, the enigmatic man behind the most terrifying regime of modern times Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. Seller Inventory # HUK9780719565694īook Description Paperback. Why did it happen? How did an idealistic dream of justice and prosperity mutate into one of humanity's worst nightmares? Philip Short, the biographer of Mao, has spent four years travelling the length of Cambodia, interviewing surviving leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge movement and sifting through previously closed archives. ![]() But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for oppression.In the three-and-a-half years of his rule, more than a million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were executed or died from hunger and disease. ![]() Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. “Philip Short’s" Pol Pot" is an almanac of extermination that achieves the near impossible feat of translati "Broaden[s} the inquiry to the point where serious history begins, and serious judgments can be made." -Justin Wintle, "Financial Times" "A superbly wrought, richly nuanced study in evil." -starred Kirkus Reviews Highly recommended." -starred Library Journal "A well-written narrative possessing both shocking detail and thoughtful analysis. Short's text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative." -William T. "Readable and capacious.the most thorough-going, most closely argued study of the Khmer Rouge to appear to date." -David Chandler, "Far Eastern Economic Review" "A superb, authoritative account of the man and the madness that transformed Cambodia, almost overnight, into hell on earth" -William Grimes, "New York Times" "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. of lesser figures speak for the first time at length about their beliefs and motives. ![]() ![]()
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