Pdf pol pot anatomy of a nightmare by philip short. A life, and jonathan spence, in mao zedong, have gone into the archives to pry the big moose head off the wall. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Rewritten in honour of the mayan calendar and it being the final day of the entire world and all that. Short is excellent at coining pithy summations of political motives that ring humanly true. The history of a nightmare new ed by short, philip isbn. A gripping and definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times in the three and a half years of pol pot s rule, more than a million cambodians, a fifth of the countrys population, were executed or died from hunger. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read pol pot. Les ebooks kindle peuvent etre lus sur nimporte quel appareil avec lappli gratuite kindle. Includes bibliographical references pages 461509 and index. Anatomy of a nightmare is an exhaustive biography of the mastermind of the khmer rouge. But the story is well told in this book, awash with beautiful photographs. Dubois an intelligent and compassionate account of the cambodian nightmare.
Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Philip short refers to his book on mao in his preface to pol pot. The parallel with khmer rouge atrocities is striking. To understand this almost inconceivable mystery, philip short explores pol pot s life from his early years to his death. Shorts text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a. The khmer rouge under their leader saloth sar pol pot were in power in. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Observing pol pot at close quarters during the one and only official visit he ever made abroad, to china in 1975, philip short was struck by the cambodian leaders charm and charisma. Anatomy of a nightmare by philip short librarything.
This hugely impressive book is more than just the life story of an individual. Thiounn prasith was a cambodian politician and diplomat. It documents how easily violence and barbarism can arise when dogmatic political theory is ruthlessly put into practice. Anatomy of a nightmare on your kindle in under a minute. Anatomy of a nightmare contains important warnings. The first full biography of the man who led cambodia into darkness. Book by philip short entitled pol pot, the history of a nightmare. David levering lewis, pulitzer prizewinning author of w. Philip short s pol pot is an almanac of extermination that achieves the near impossible feat of translating madness into logic. Yet pol pot s utopian experiments in social engineering would result in the death of one in every five cambodiansmore than a million people. Philip short observed pol pot at close quarters during the one and only of. Anatomy of a nightmare by philip short in david chandlers excellent biography brother number one from 1993, the author has an eerie feeling of. Short spent four years traveling throughout cambodia interviewing the surviving leaders of the khmer rouge movement, many of whom have never spoken before, including pol pot s brotherinlaw and the former khmer rouge head of. Anatomy of a nightmare ebook written by philip short.
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