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Autore |
Pran Dith |
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Titolo |
Children of Cambodia's killing fields [[electronic resource] ] : memoirs by survivors / / compiled by Dith Pran ; introduction by Ben Kiernan ; edited by Kim DePaul |
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New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c1997 |
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ISBN |
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9786611722937 |
1-281-72293-6 |
0-300-13383-9 |
0-585-34760-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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Collana |
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Yale Southeast Asia studies monograph series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Dith Pran <1942-2008.> |
DePaulKim |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political atrocities - Cambodia |
Children - Cambodia |
Cambodia History 1975-1979 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Compiler's Note -- Introduction: A World Turned Upside Down -- Songs My Enemies Taught Me -- A Letter to My Mother -- Worms from Our Skin -- One Spoon of Rice -- Memoir of a Child's Nightmare -- New Year's Surprise -- The Dark Years of My Life -- Jail Without Walls -- Witnessing the Horror -- The Unfortunate Cambodia -- Living in the Darkness -- A Four-Year-Old's View of the Khmer Rouge -- The Tragedy of My Homeland -- Hurt, Pain, and Suffering -- The Darkness of My Experience -- Survival in Spite of Fear -- Pol Pot -- A Bitter Life -- The Unplanned Journey -- Motherland -- My Mother's Courage -- Escaping the Horror -- When the Owl Cries -- The End of Childhood -- My Sadness -- Life in Communism -- The Nightmare -- The Tonle Sap Lake Massacre -- Notes to the Introduction -- Glossary |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This extraordinary book contains eyewitness accounts of life in Cambodia during Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, accounts written by survivors who were children at the time. |
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