The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300144345)

This edition of Ben Kiernan's definitive account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal.
"Deeply detailed, meticulously reported. . . . Important and] valuable." --Nation
"In this authoritative work, Ben Kiernan . . . explores the reasons why Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge revolution became a Cambodian nightmare." --Richard Gough, Times Higher Education Supplement
"Perhaps the most complete account of Pol Pot's terror] and the closest to Cambodian sources." --Economist
"One of the most important contributions to the subject so far." --R. B. Smith, Asian Affairs
"Kiernan, the leading authority on modern Cambodia, meticulously examines Pol Pot's killing machine and clears up many misconceptions found in earlier studies. . . . An important book for students of genocide as well as scholars of Southeast Asia." --Library Journal
" A] detailed and chilling history." --Asiaweek
"The most detailed history to date of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. . . . This book . . . will certainly be the benchmark against which all future research on the Khmer Rouge must be measured. Very highly recommended." --Choice

Author: Ben Kiernan
ISBN-10: 0300144342
ISBN-13: 9780300144345
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.50h x 4.90w x 1.50d