Behind the Killing Fields–Now Available


Behind the Killing Fields: A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims


Gina Chon and Sambath Thet

212 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus.

Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4245-4 | $49.95 | £32.50

A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series

Behind the Killing FieldsBased on exclusive interviews with the top surviving Khmer Rouge leader, Nuon Chea, this book tells the story of a man who began as an idealistic freedom fighter and wound up involved in one of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century, Cambodia's Killing Fields.

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