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When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rough Revolution by Elizabeth Becker Publisher Comments Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia (07 Edition) by Ben Kiernan Synopsis Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began in Southeast Asia in the same year. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrifi c... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Landmines in Cambodia: Past, Present, and Future by Wade C Roberts Publisher Comments War, genocide, and foreign occupation have taken their toll on Cambodia. These events have demolished infrastructure, overturned ruling parties, and led to the deaths of millions. Although these events are now past, many of the resulting ramifications... (read more) Your price: $92.50 New - Hardcover
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Road of Lost Innocence: the True Story of a Cambodian Heroine (09 Edition) by Somaly Mam Publisher Comments A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation. A riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung Publisher Comments Chapter One phnom penhApril 1975 Phnom Penh city wakes early to take advantage of the cool morning breeze before the sun breaks through the haze and invades the country with sweltering heat. Already at 6 A.M. people in Phnom Penh are rushing and bumping... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Angkor by Jean Pier Grandjean Publisher Comments The great temple complex of Angkor Wat, the architectural gem of the Khmer dynasty, was built between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. It rises 200 feet from the Cambodian jungle floor like a gigantic mandala, its walls adorned throughout with scenes... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Cambodia: The Land and Its People by Barry Broman Synopsis Author and photographer Barry Broman has compiled a stunning visual overview of the country of Cambodia. The lavish illustrations are accompanied by succinct text providing an overview of the countrys history and culture.... (read more) Your price: $24.50 New - Trade Paper
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Phnom Penh: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) by Milton Osborne Publisher Comments As a one-time resident of Phnom Penh and an authority on Southeast Asia, Milton Osborne provides a colorful account of the troubled history and appealing culture of Cambodia's capital city. Osborne sheds light on Phnom Penh's early history, when first... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Lights and Green Lizards: A Cambodian Adventure by Liz Anderson Publisher Comments When two elderly doctors join Voluntary Service Overseas, they find themselves in unusual circumstances when they arrive in Cambodia. Together these women face not only humid weather, cockroaches, and cultural obstacles, but also something far more... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Surviving Cambodia the Khmer Rouge Regim by Bun Lim Publisher Comments This is a true story about one of many family's life and death in Cambodia during The Khmer Rouge Regime. What we did to survive, to escape to a better place and hope for a better life. We've lost many family members during the bloodshed of The Khmer... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him Synopsis A Cambodian survivor unrolls the reels of her memory to deliver this heart-wrenching memoir of growing up under the brutal reign of the Khmer Rouge and trekking through the "killing fields" of rudimentary labor camps. Photos.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung Publisher Comments One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him Publisher Comments In the Cambodian proverb, "when broken glass floats" is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the Him family began their trek through the hell of the "killing fields." In a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short Publisher Comments A portrait of the former Cambodian despot whose three-and-a-half-year rule saw the deaths of more than a fifth of the country's population, documents how Pol Pot's beliefs about moral purity, self-abnegation, and utopian prosperity degenerated into... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The New Interventionism 1991-1994 (Cambridge Air Surveys) by James Mayall Publisher Comments This book explores the experience of the United Nations in Cambodia, former Yugoslavia, and Somalia.... (read more) List Price $127.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung Publisher Comments When Loung Ungcame to America in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee, she had already survived years of hunger, violence, and loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a story she told in her critically acclaimed bestseller, First They Killed My Father.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Gate by Francois Bizot Publisher Comments A literary and historical tour de force: what one man saw and did in a land of pristine beauty on the eve of one of the twentieth century?s most barbaric spectacles. In 1971, François Bizot was a young French scholar of Khmer pottery and Buddhist... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Surviving Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge Regime by Bun T. Lim Publisher Comments This is a true story about one of many family's life and death in Cambodia during The Khmer Rouge Regime. What we did to survive, to escape to a better place and hope for a better life. We've lost many family members during the bloodshed of The Khmer... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness by Milton Osborne Synopsis Sihanouk: Prince of Light, prince of darkness is the first full-length English-language account of one of the most remarkable and controversial Asian leaders of the 20th century. This critical, unauthorised biography, gives due credit to the achievements... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Killing Fields by Kari Rene Hall Publisher Comments They are the continuing victims of a Cambodian holocaust that shocked the world--and they are all but forgotten. Seventeen years after the Khmer Rouge began killing more than one million of their countrymen, the tragedy continues for some 350,00 Khmer... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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