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Road to the Killing Fields
Author | : Wilfred P. Deac |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015053160837 |
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"In 1970, the small nation of Cambodia was sucked into the vortex of Cold War geopolitics, a war whose denouement led to one of the worst bloodbaths in history. Road to the Killing Fields is the first book to deal exclusively with the military aspects of how that tragedy developed. Because U.S. involvement in that part of Southeast Asia was largely clandestine, Americans have had little exposure to the events that led to the horrific citizen massacres known as the "killing fields.""--
From Rice Fields to Killing Fields
Author | : James A. Tyner |
Publsiher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2017-10-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780815654223 |
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Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time, as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant interpretation of Cambodian history during this period presents the CPK as a totalitarian, communist, and autarkic regime seeking to reorganize Cambodian society around a primitive, agrarian political economy. From Rice Fields to Killing Fields challenges previous interpretations and provides a documentary-based Marxist interpretation of the political economy of Democratic Kampuchea. Tyner argues that Cambodia’s mass violence was the consequence not of the deranged attitudes and paranoia of a few tyrannical leaders but that the violence was structural, the direct result of a series of political and economic reforms that were designed to accumulate capital rapidly: the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of people through forced evacuations, the imposition of starvation wages, the promotion of import-substitution policies, and the intensification of agricultural production through forced labor. Moving beyond the Cambodian genocide, Tyner maintains that it is a mistake to view Democratic Kampuchea in isolation, as an aberration or something unique. Rather, the policies and practices initiated by the Khmer Rouge must be seen in a larger, historical-geographical context.
Beyond the Killing Fields
Author | : Sydney Hillel Schanberg |
Publsiher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781597975056 |
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Warfare & defence.
Children of Cambodia s Killing Fields
Author | : Kim DePaul |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300078730 |
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Publisher Fact Sheet This extraordinary collection of eyewitness accounts by Cambodian survivors of Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s offers searing testimony to an era of brutality, brainwashing, betrayals, starvation, & gruesome executions.
Behind the Killing Fields
Author | : Gina Chon,Sambath Thet |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2011-06-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780812201598 |
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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 more than 1,000 hours of interviews with the top surviving Khmer Rouge leader, Nuon Chea, Behind the Killing Fields follows the journey of a man who began as a dedicated freedom fighter and wound up accused of crimes against humanity. Known as Brother Number 2, Chea was Pol Pot's top lieutenant. He is now in prison, facing prosecution in a United Nations-Cambodian tribunal for his actions during the Khmer Rouge rule, when more than two million Cambodians died. The book traces how the seeds of the Killing Fields were sown and what led one man to believe that mass killing was necessary for the greater good. Coauthor Sambath Thet, a Khmer Rouge survivor, shares his personal perspectives on the murderous regime and how some victims have managed to rebuild their lives. The stories of Nuon Chea and Sambath Thet collide when the two meet. While Thet holds Chea responsible for the death of his parents and brother, he strives for understanding over revenge in order to reveal the forces that destroyed his homeland in the name of creating utopia. In this age of suicide bombers and terror alerts, the world is still at a loss to comprehend the violence of zealots. Behind the Killing Fields bravely confronts this challenge in an exclusive portrait of one man's political madness and another's personal wisdom.
I Survived the Killing Fields
Author | : Kok-ung Seng |
Publsiher | : Seng Kok Ung |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781450756174 |
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From the Killing Fields Through Fields of Grace
Author | : Lakhina L. King |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : Cambodia |
ISBN | : 0984768300 |
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The true story of King's journey from the killing fields of Cambodia to the land of God's amazing grace and back again as a missionary of mercy to the forgotten people she left behind. Travel with her on her extraordinary trip along the road of redemption and learn how to move from a painful history toward a promising destiny.
Beneath the Killing Fields
Author | : Matthew Leonard |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2017-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781473884113 |
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Beneath the Killing Fields of the Western Front still lies a hidden landscape of industrialised conflict virtually untouched since 1918. This subterranean world is an ambiguous environment filled with material culture that that objectifies the scope and depth of human interaction with the diverse conflict landscapes of modern war. Covering the military reasoning for taking the war underground, as well as exploring the way that human beings interacted with these extraordinary alien environments, this book provides a more all-encompassing overview of the Western Front. The underground war was intrinsic to trench warfare and involved far more than simply trying to destroy the enemys trenches from below. It also served as a home to thousands of men, protecting them from the metallic landscapes of the surface. With the aid of cutting edge fieldwork conducted by the author in these subterranean locales, this book combines military history, archaeology and anthropology together with primary data and unique imagery of British, French, German and American underground defences in order to explore the realities of subterranean warfare on the Western Front, and the effects on the human body and mind that living and fighting underground inevitably entailed.