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  • Behind the Killing Fields

    A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims

    by Gina Chon, Sambath Thet ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    In recent history, atrocities have often been committed in the name of lofty ideals. One of the most disturbing examples took place in Cambodia's Killing Fields, where tens of thousands of victims were executed and hastily disposed of by Khmer Rouge cadres. Nearly thirty years after these bloody purges, two journalists entered the jungles of Cambodia to uncover secrets still buried there.Based on ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Behind the Killing Fields

    A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims

    by Gina Chon, Sambath Thet ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    In recent history, atrocities have often been committed in the name of lofty ideals. One of the most disturbing examples took place in Cambodia's Killing Fields, where tens of thousands of victims were executed and hastily disposed of by Khmer Rouge cadres. Nearly thirty years after these bloody purges, two journalists entered the jungles of Cambodia to uncover secrets still buried there.Based on ... Read more

    $74.39 CAD

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    The History of a Nightmare

    by Philip Short ...
    Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. 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 ... Read more

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  • When the War Was Over

    Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition

    by Elizabeth Becker ...
    The "definitive" (Los Angeles Times), award-winning history of Cambodia and Pol Pot's rise to power, tracing the country's modern origins to the human rights abuses that reshaped it foreverAward-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Cambodia's Curse

    The Modern History of a Troubled Land

    by Joel Brinkley ...
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.Although ... Read more

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  • Deadly Deceits

    My 25 Years in the CIA

    by Ralph W. McGehee ...
    Series Book 11 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency unmasks its culture of lethal lies in this devastating exposé, now with a new foreword by David MacMichael.Ralph W. McGehee was a patriot, dedicated to the American way of life and the international fight against Communism. Following his graduation with honors from Notre Dame, McGehee was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1952 and quickly ... Read more

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  • The Lost Executioner

    The Story of Comrade Duch and the Khmer Rouge

    by Nic Dunlop ...
    Between 1975 and 1979 the seemingly peaceful nation of Cambodia succumbed to one of the most bloodthirsty revolutions in modern history. Nearly two million people were killed. As head of the Khmer Rouge's secret police, Comrade Duch was responsible for the murder of more than 20,000 of them. Twenty years later, not one member of the Khmer Rouge had been held accountable for what had happened, and ... Read more

    $17.69 CAD

  • The Master of Confessions

    The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer

    by Thierry Cruvellier ...
    Renowned journalist Thierry Cruvellier takes us into the dark heart of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge with The Master of Confessions, a suspenseful account of a Chief Interrogator's trial for war crimes.On April 17, 1975, the communist Khmer Rouge, led by its secretive prime minister Pol Pot, took over Cambodia. Renaming the country Democratic Kampuchea, they cut the nation off from the world and began ... Read more

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  • Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors

    by Dith Pran, Kim DePaul ...
    This extraordinary book contains eyewitness accounts of life in Cambodia during Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, accounts written by survivors who were children at the time. The book has been put together by Dith Pran, whose own experiences in Cambodia were so graphically portrayed in the film The Killing Fields.The testimonies related here bear poignant witness to the ... Read more

    $21.49 CAD

  • Hun Sen's Cambodia

    by Sebastian Strangio ...
    A fascinating analysis of the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of CambodiaTo many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the capital city of ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Human Trafficking

    A Global Perspective

    by Louise Shelley ...
    This book examines all forms of human trafficking globally, revealing the operations of the trafficking business and the nature of the traffickers themselves. Using a historical and comparative perspective, it demonstrates that there is more than one business model of human trafficking and that there are enormous variations in human trafficking in different regions of the world. Drawing on a wide ... Read more

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  • Cambodia: Report From a Stricken Land

    by Henry Kamm ...
    Based on his observations over three decades, Henry Kamm, Pulitzer Prize-winning NEW YORK TIMES Southeast Asia correspondent, unravels the complexities of Cambodia. Kamm's invaluable document--a factual and personal account of its troubled history-- gives the Western reader the first clear understanding of this magic land's past and present.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD