Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare by Philip Short

Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare

Philip Short

560 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Observing Pol Pot at close quarters during the one and only official visit he ever made abroad, to China in 1975, Philip Short was struck by the Cambodian leader's charm and charisma. Yet Pol Pot's utopian experiments in social engineering would r...

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