Presents a carefully researched analysis of the Democratic Kampuchea regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (1975-79) and the early years of the People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-89). This book presents a fresh interpretation based on the earliest primary sources - interviews with the Khmer people themselves.
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.) entitled: Cambodia in the reign of King Sisowath, 1904-1927. Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-339) and index. Monash papers on Southeast Asia ; no. 37.
Contents : 1. The first "protectorate": France and Cambodia 2. Into the quagmire: America and Indochina before Geneva 3. The pursuit of neutrality: Cambodia and the powers, 1954-1966 4. The erosion of neutrality: America and the rise of the Cambodian right, 1966-1969 5. A gamble that failed: Sihanouk and the Cambodian right, 1969-March 1970 6. From nationalism to revolution: the coup an…
For most Americans, Cambodia was a sideshow to the war in Vietnam, but by the time of the Vietnam invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 and the subsequent war, it had finally moved to centre stage. Kenneth Conboy chronicles the violence that plagued Cambodia from World War II until the end of the twentieth century and peels back the layers of secrecy that surrounded the CIA's covert assistan…