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Title: Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors by Dith Pran, Dith Pran, Ben Kiernan, Kim Depaul ISBN: 0-300-06839-5 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Testimony to Pol Pot's failure and America's great promise.
Comment: Twenty-nine essays compiled by Dith Pran, each written by a Cambodian who was still in childhood when Cambodia fell into Pol Pot's hands. Ben Kiernan ties the collection together so well in his introduction: "Children had to work like adults. Adults, given instructions like children, were treated like animals." As Kiernan notes, Pol Pot's efforts to build his twisted revolution on the backs of these children certainly backfired! The accompanying photos of the contributing authors and the details of their successful new lives in America will make any American recognize what a 'promised land' our country still remains. In so many many ways America has failed the Cambodian people, but most of those fortunate few who reached our shores have made successful lives for themselves and their families. The difficulties confronting those who remain in Cambodia today are seemingly insurmountable. As has been said so many times, every Cambodian has a story to tell, and a river of ink could not describe their nation's suffering. Dith Pran has once again served his people proudly with this touching collection.
Rating: 4
Summary: A sad story.
Comment: These are the collected accounts of children who suffered untold atrocities under the Pol Pot regime such as torture, rape, starvation, beating, and killing. People were buried alive or thrown into a pot and cooked like fish or poultry. Others had their gallbladders and liver removed to serve as meals for the Khmer Rouge.
This is the story of a revolution going haywire and of ruthless men who, in the name of distorted and senseless ideologies, inflicted pain, fear, terror, and death on their countrymen.
Power not backed by strong moral values could only lead to barbarism.
Rating: 4
Summary: Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors
Comment: This book of memoirs is deeply moving with one eulogy to a mother which I will never forget. It brought me to tears and crying out loud. Books such as these should be read by our youth before they enlist in the armed services. Naive Americans such as Jessica Lynch might not be so swept up by the manipulative promises of military recruiters if they became more informed before they enlist.
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Title: First They Killed My Father : A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung ISBN: 0060931388 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him ISBN: 0393322106 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 by Ben Kiernan ISBN: 0300096496 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison by David Chandler ISBN: 0520222474 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title:The Killing Fields ASIN: B00004RF82 Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 13 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.38 |
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