1975-1979

Nothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That's who I am," says Haing Ngor. And in his memoir, Survival in the Killing Fields, he tells the gripping and frequently terrifying story of his term in the hell created by the communist Khmer Rouge. Like Dith Pran, the Cambodian doctor and interpreter whom Ngor played in an Oscar-winning performance in The Killing Fields, Ngor lived through the atrocities that the 1984 film portrayed. Like Pran, too, Ngor was a doctor by profession, and he experienced firsthand his country's wretched descent, under the Khmer Rouge, into senseless brutality, slavery, squalor, starvation, and disease--all of which are recounted in sometimes unimaginable horror in Ngor's poignant memoir. Since the original publication of this searing personal chronicle, Haing Ngor's life has ended with his murder, which has never been satisfactorily solved. In an epilogue written especially for this new edition, Ngor's coauthor, Roger Warner, offers a glimpse into this complex, enigmatic man's last years--years that he lived "like his country: scarred, and incapable of fully healing.".

Pin Yathay recounts his experiences hiding from the Khmer Rouge guerrillas who murdered more than two million Cambodians in his native country during the late 1970s, reflecting on the terror he felt and the loss of seventeen members of his family who were killed in the genocide.

Denise Affon?o chronicles the experiences of her family in the years following the Khmer Rouge's take over of Cambodia in April 1975, describing how she, her husband, and her children, were deported to a labor camp where they endured hard labor, famine, sickness, and death.

The author, born in Phnom Penh in 1962 to a high Cambodian official, discusses her experiences after the Khmer Rouge takeover in 1975 which resulted in the deaths of over two million people, and tells how she and her surviving family members survived until reaching a refugee camp in 1980.

At the beginning of the Khmer Rouge reign in Cambodia, New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant Dith Pran report on the atrocities. Dith saves Schanberg but is sent to the labor camps and presumed dead until four long years later.

Relates the personal experiences of Loung Ung, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official in Phnom Penh, after her family was forced to flee from Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army, and describes her training as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans and how her surviving siblings were eventually reunited.

"In late 1970s Cambodia, he and his army of Communist rebels led a violent, brutal campaign of reformation that ended in the shocking genocide of more than one-quarter of the country's population. From the horror of 'the killing fields' to his astonishing re-appearance following the rumor of his death, this is the gripping, gruesome story of Pol Pot.".

Raami is seven years old when the Khmer Rouge regime takes power in Cambodia and over the next four years she fights for survival amid the systematic violence and atrocities that surround her.

Cambodian child soldier Arn Chorn-Pond defied the odds and used all of his courage and wits to survive the murderous regime of the Khmer Rouge.