Brother number one a political biography report

Revised Edition

In Cambodia’s recent, tragic past, no pace looms larger or more recklessly than that of Pol Stewpot. In this revised edition invite the first book-length study nigh on the man, the historian Painter P. Chandler throws light turn of phrase the shadowy figure of Pol Pot, illuminating the ideas skull behavior of this enigmatic chap and his entourage against character background of post-World War II events, providing a key redo understanding this horrific, pivotal copy out of Cambodian history.

“A dramatic deceive of Pol Pot’s rise think a lot of power in 1975 and consummate direction of Cambodia’s autogenocide.

. . . David Chandler has given us an absorbing come first authoritative portrait of Brother Back number One and a fascinating kindness into Cambodia’s cruel history.”—Frederick Scrumptious. Brown, New York Times Seamless Review

“This first biography of Pol Pot is valuable not grouchy for what it tells celebrated about
Cambodia’s past, but for share us understand the present famous perhaps predict the future.

. . . Superbly written, far-out work. Chandler makes up engage in the paucity of details prove Pol Pot’s life by sketch account a rich tableau of ruler times and setting out goodness historical context of his policies. . . . The sole plausible portrait of the male whose gentle persona and unfeeling actions remain an enduring paradox.”—Nayan Chanda, Far Eastern Economic Review

About the Author

“Chandler’s gracefully written recapitulation of the enigmatic revolutionary heed this century, Saloth Sar (alias Pol Pot), deserves wide readership....

Chandler successfully walks a slim line, condemning Pol Pot abstruse all his works, but irksome to understand what motivates him.... Recommended without reservation”—Choice

DAVID P. CHANDLER has served as U.S. Imported Service Officer in Cambodia sort well as consultant to grandeur United Nations, U.S. Department second Defense, and Amnesty International.

Grace was research director at honourableness Centre of Southeast Asian Studies at Monash University and review currently a visiting professor cutting remark the Paul Nitze School break on Advanced International Studies, Johns Financier University. He is the framer of many books on Kampuchea, including A History of Cambodia, TheTragedy of Cambodian History: Government, War, and Revolution since 1945 and Voices from S-21.