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  • MORE LUCK THAN ANYTHING

    by JOHN IVANAC, RICHARD HENG ...
    In 2007 I was working with a Cambodian colleague who was responsible for managing our IT section. We kept in touch after he moved to another department. Over the course of a year (2015) Richard began to tell me the story of his life under the Khmer RougeHe and his family originally came from Pailin, a relatively lawless area close to the Thai border. Pailin is known for its gemstones and the ... Read more

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    by Haing Ngor ...
    Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. Here, in his memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, is a searing account of a country's descent into hell. His was a world of war slaves and execution squads, of senseless brutality and mind ... Read more

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  • When the War Was Over

    Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition

    by Elizabeth Becker ...
    The "definitive" (Los Angeles Times), award-winning history of Cambodia and Pol Pot's rise to power, tracing the country's modern origins to the human rights abuses that reshaped it foreverAward-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the ... Read more

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  • Cambodia's Curse

    The Modern History of a Troubled Land

    by Joel Brinkley ...
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.Although ... Read more

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  • Killing for Profit

    Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade

    by Julian Rademeyer ...
    A terrifying true story of greed, corruption, depravity and ruthless criminal enterprise … On the black markets of Southeast Asia, rhino horn is worth more than gold, cocaine and heroin. This is the chilling story of a more than two-year-long investigation into a dangerous criminal underworld where merciless syndicates will stop at nothing to attain their prize. It is a tale of greed, folly and ... Read more

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  • Deadly Deceits

    My 25 Years in the CIA

    by Ralph W. McGehee ...
    Series Book 11 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency unmasks its culture of lethal lies in this devastating exposé, now with a new foreword by David MacMichael.Ralph W. McGehee was a patriot, dedicated to the American way of life and the international fight against Communism. Following his graduation with honors from Notre Dame, McGehee was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1952 and quickly ... Read more

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  • Alive in the Killing Fields

    Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide

    by Martha E. Kendall, Martha Kendall ...
    Alive in the Killing Fields is the real-life memoir of Nawuth Keat, a man who survived the horrors of war-torn Cambodia. He has now broken a longtime silence in the hope that telling the truth about what happened to his people and his country will spare future generations from similar tragedy.In this captivating memoir, a young Nawuth defies the odds and survives the invasion of his homeland by ... Read more

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  • Poached

    Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking

    by Rachel Love Nuwer ...
    An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders, and the customers--and of those fighting against itJournalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. Our insatiable demand for animals -- for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur -- is ... Read more

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  • River Of Time

    by Jon Swain ...
    Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and death as Europe never could. He also describes the beauty of the Mekong landscape - the villages along its banks, surrounded by ... Read more

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  • I Survived the Killing Fields

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    by Seng Kok Ung ...
    April 1975 stands as one of the worst days in the history of Cambodia. That is the day the Khmer Rouge soldiers overthrew the corrupt regime of Lon Lon. Literally, overnight, the whole population of Cambodia was thrown into the streets and were told to move to the countryside under the ruse that America was going to bomb the cities. Once the population was in the country the Khmer Rouge tortured ... Read more

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  • Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors

    by Dith Pran, Kim DePaul ...
    This extraordinary book contains eyewitness accounts of life in Cambodia during Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, accounts written by survivors who were children at the time. The book has been put together by Dith Pran, whose own experiences in Cambodia were so graphically portrayed in the film The Killing Fields.The testimonies related here bear poignant witness to the ... Read more

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  • The Gate

    A Memoir

    by Francois Bizot ...
    In 1971 a young French ethnologist named Francois Bizot was taken prisoner by forces of the Khmer Rouge who kept him chained in a jungle camp for months before releasing him. Four years later Bizot became the intermediary between the now victorious Khmer Rouge and the occupants of the besieged French embassy in Phnom Penh, eventually leading a desperate convoy of foreigners to safety across the ... Read more

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