"Excellent and absorbing.... Indispensable to any attempt to understand the Khmer Rouge." -William Shawcross New York Review of Books "A dramatic account of Pol Pot's rise to power in 1975 and his direction of Cambodia's autogenocide.... David Chandler has given us an absorbing...
David P. Chandler throws light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot, illuminating the ideas and behavior of him and his entourage against the background of post-World War II events, providing a key to understanding the horrific, pivotal period of Cambodian history.