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Pol Pot - The History of a Nightmare (Paperback, New ed)
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Pol Pot - The History of a Nightmare (Paperback, New ed)
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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. 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 hunger
and disease. 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'. 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. of lesser figures speak for the first
time at length about their beliefs and motives.
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