Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America

by Usha Welaratna

Book Overview

In 1975, after five years of devastation and upheaval caused by civil war, the Cambodian people welcomed the victorious communist Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot. Once in power, the new regime tightly closed Cambodia to the outside world. Four years later, when the Vietnamese communists invaded Cambodia and defeated the Khmer Rouge, the world learned that during their control the Khmer Rouge had turned the country into "killing fields," in one of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804723729
• ISBN13: 9780804723725
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Interview-based format powerful.

It is hard for most of us to grasp the magnitude of the abomination perpetrated upon the Cambodian people. The use of the interview-based technique very poignantly relays the individual experience in manner not seen with scholarly historical works