Erscheint: November 2026
Buch (Softcover): Sachbuch
When the War Was Over
Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition
Verlag:
Publicaffairs Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35336122
EAN: 9781541706415
Erscheint: November 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 37.50
Beschreibung
The authoritative history of the Cambodian Revolution and its aftermath. "An impressive feat of scholarship and reporting: intelligent, measured, resourceful. " -Washington Post The day they took over Cambodia in 1975, the Khmer Rouge closed the borders and drove the citizens out of towns and cities into the countryside, where they were forced to labor endlessly in the fields. Torture, terror, starvation, and death became routine. The intelligentsia was exterminated. Ultimately, almost two million people-nearly a quarter of the Cambodian population-were killed in one of the twentieth century's worst crimes against humanity. When the War Was Over is award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker's masterful history of the Cambodian nightmare, from its origins in French colonialism and the Vietnam War, to dictator Pol Pot's political education in Paris, to the killing fields across Cambodia. In this newly updated edition, Becker lays out the impact of the Khmer Rouge genocide on modern Cambodia. Comprehensive, compassionate, and propulsive, When the War Was Over illuminates the darkness of Cambodia with the intensity of a bolt of lightning.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Elizabeth Becker
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 632