Trust and Disunity: Cambodia

Describes the geography history culture industry and people of Cambodia

With the help of roadmaps to identify and locate places that no longer exist on a present-day world map, each introduction to an ancient region presents its historical progression through time, showing an evolution to the present day.

Encompassing the era of French colonialism and the revival of Cambodian nationalism; 1950s Paris, where Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot received his political education; the killing fields of Cambodia; government chambers in Washington, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, Hanoi, and Phnom Penh; and the death of Pol Pot in 1998; this is a book of epic vision and staggering power. Merging original historical research with the many voices of those who lived through the times and exclusive interviews with every Cambodian leader of the past quarter century, When the War Was Over illuminates the darkness of Cambodia with the intensity of a bolt of lightning.