The pol pot regime: race, power, and genocide in cambodia under the khmer rouge, 1975-79, third edition, paperback/ben kiernan

This edition of Ben Kiernans definitive account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal.

Deeply detailed, meticulously reported.

Important and] valuable.

-- Nation In this authoritative work, Ben Kiernan .

explores the reasons why Pol Pots Khmer Rouge revolution became a Cambodian nightmare.

--Richard Gough, Times Higher Education Supplement Perhaps the most complete account of Pol Pots terror] and the closest to Cambodian sources.

-- Economist One of the most important contributions to the subject so far.

Smith, Asian Affairs Kiernan, the leading authority on modern Cambodia, meticulously examines Pol Pots killing machine and clears up many misconceptions found in earlier studies.

An important book for students of genocide as well as scholars of Southeast Asia.

-- Library Journal A] detailed and chilling history.

-- Asiaweek The most detailed history to date of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.

This book .

will certainly be the benchmark against which all future research on the Khmer Rouge must be measured.

Very highly recommended.

-- Choice About the Author: Ben Kiernan is the A.

Whitney Griswold Professor of History, professor of international and area studies, and the founding director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University (www.

edu/gsp).

His other books include Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur and How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930-1975, published by Yale University Press.