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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

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by Philip Short
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Availability:In StockContributor:Philip ShortPublish date:2006-01-10Pages:576
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9780805080063ISBN-10:805080066UPC:9780805080063Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Presidents & Heads of State, Asia, ModernBook Topic:Southeast Asia, 20th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SC09FV5PSA

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

"The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative . . . [Short] is excellent at coining pithy summations of political motives that ring humanly true."--The New York Times Book Review (front page)

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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9780805080063ISBN-10:805080066UPC:9780805080063Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Presidents & Heads of State, Asia, ModernBook Topic:Southeast Asia, 20th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SC09FV5PSA

Philip Short has been a foreign correspondent for The Times (London), The Economist, and the BBC in Uganda, Moscow, China, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of the definitive biography of Mao Tse-tung, and lived in China and Cambodia in the 1970s and early 1980s, where he has returned regularly ever since. He now lives in southern France.


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