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Pol Pot : anatomy of a nightmare / Philip Short.
- Title
- Pol Pot : anatomy of a nightmare / Philip Short.
- Author
- Short, Philip
- Publication
- New York : Henry Holt, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DS554.83.P65 S53 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 537 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- A portrait of the Cambodian despot whose rule saw the deaths of one-fifth of the country's population documents how Pol Pot's beliefs about moral purity, self-abnegation, and utopian prosperity degenerated into radical egalitarianism.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies (form)
- Biographies.
- Note
- "A John Macrae book."
- Originally published: Great Britain: John Murray, 2004.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-509) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Sâr -- City of light -- Initiation to the Maquis -- Cambodian realities -- Germinal -- The sudden death of reason -- Fires of purgation -- Men in black -- Future perfect -- Model for the world -- Stalin's microbes -- Utopia disbound.
- ISBN
- 0805066624 (hc)
- LCCN
- ^^2004054080
- OCLC
- 60603030
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library