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Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the destruction of Cambodia William Shawcross.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London The Hogarth Press 1991.Description: 524 pages, [16] pages of plates illustrations, maps, ports. 24 cmISBN:
  • 0701209445
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.70434209596 SHA
Contents:
The secret The land The prince The war The adviser The problem The bridges The coup The invasion The outrage The doctrine The strategy The embassy The battle The bombardiers The decay The others The peace The bombing The secretary The proconsuls The negotiators The end The beginning.
Summary: "in 1968 Cambodia was a relatively peaceful and prosperous country. Nixon was elected as U.S. president, and Henry Kissinger became his National Security Assistant. Ten years later Nixon was disgraced, Kissinger celebreated, and Cambodia, generally referred to as a 'sideshow' to the Vietnam war, had been almost obliterated, with hundreds of thousands dead in the Khmer Rouge killing fields. [The author's] book is a horrifying testament to the destruction of a small, neutral country through the violent fanaticism of the communists and the corruption of superpower policy makers"
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Center for Khmer Studies LC SEAS Collection 959.70434209596 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Available 10443
Books Books Center for Khmer Studies Phnom Penh 959.70434209596 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.2 Available CKS21080229

First published: André Deutsch, 1979.

Bibliography: p. 493-495. - Includes index.

The secret The land The prince The war The adviser The problem The bridges The coup The invasion The outrage The doctrine The strategy The embassy The battle The bombardiers The decay The others The peace The bombing The secretary The proconsuls The negotiators The end The beginning.

"in 1968 Cambodia was a relatively peaceful and prosperous country. Nixon was elected as U.S. president, and Henry Kissinger became his National Security Assistant. Ten years later Nixon was disgraced, Kissinger celebreated, and Cambodia, generally referred to as a 'sideshow' to the Vietnam war, had been almost obliterated, with hundreds of thousands dead in the Khmer Rouge killing fields. [The author's] book is a horrifying testament to the destruction of a small, neutral country through the violent fanaticism of the communists and the corruption of superpower policy makers"

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