by Philip Short · John Murray Publishers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780719565694
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«Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare» is the historical biography by Philip Short, published by John Murray in paperback (560 pages, in English).
Philip Short recounts the life of Pol Pot and the drift of the Khmer regime in Cambodia: an egalitarian utopia that degenerated into terror and famine and caused more than a million deaths. The author travelled across the country, interviewed Khmer Rouge leaders and reviewed closed archives to explain the role of the West in the tragedy.
The book originally appeared in 2000 as Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare; this revised edition was published in 2005. It was nominated for the 2005 Kiriyama Prize in the non-fiction category.
For readers interested in the history of Cambodia, political biographies and the study of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes.
