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Hope is for the unborn : 1998 -- Brief greatness, a decline without end : from the beginnings until 1970 -- Tripping into disaster : 1970 -- The prince and the chauffeur : 1964 and 1970 -- Dressing up for war : 1970 -- Cannon fodder : 1970 -- Murder of the scapegoats : 1970 -- A republic stitched together : 1970 -- The mystical marshal : 1970-1975 -- The price of trusting America : 1970-1975 -- "The Cambodian no longer exists" : 1975-1979 -- The genocide and its perpetrators : 1975-1979 -- A war left unfinished : 1979 -- Meeting the murderers : 1979 -- Life starting anew : 1979-1980 -- "Below the level required by their task" : 1980-1987 -- Enter the United Nations : 1991-1992 -- Elections instead of reconciliation : 1992-1993 -- Cheating the voters : 1993 -- Back to square one : 1994-1998

"In Cambodia: Report from a Stricken Land, former Southeast Asia correspondent for the New York Times and Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Kamm gives a clear and definitive history of contemporary Cambodia from 1970 to the present. For more than thirty years, Kamm's high-level political and military connections allowed him unparalleled access to the leaders who shaped Cambodia into what it is today. Bringing to this work a unique expertise on Southeast Asia, he provides a poignant but clear-eyed portrait of a people and a beleaguered and complex country. For the first time, Kamm offers Western readers a much-needed analysis and understanding of those thirty turbulent years of revolution, invasion, coups d'etat, and genocide."--BOOK JACKET

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