Author: Sydney Hillel Schanberg
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597976105
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The first collection of Sydney Schanberg's work to be published.
Beyond the Killing Fields
Author: Sydney Hillel Schanberg
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597975052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Warfare & defence.
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597975052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Warfare & defence.
The Death and Life of Dith Pran
Author: Sydney H. Schanberg
Publisher: RosettaBooks
ISBN: 0795334737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
The US journalist’s account of his colleague’s struggle to survive the Cambodian genocide—the basis for the Oscar–winning film The Killing Fields. On April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge soldiers seized Phnom Penh—the capital of Cambodia—and began a brutal genocide that left millions dead. Dith Pran, a Cambodian working as an assistant to American reporter Sydney H. Schanberg, was a witness to these events. While his employer managed to escape across the border, Dith Pran fled into the Cambodian countryside—and into the heart of the massacre. The basis for the acclaimed movie The Killing Fields, this is the compelling account of the days before the fall of Phnom Penh. It’s the story of one man’s struggle for survival in a country that had become a death camp for millions of its citizens—and another man’s failed efforts to keep his friend and colleague safe. Written within a year of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge, it is a work of both historical and literary significance. Sydney H. Schanberg contributed a moving new foreword to this first eBook edition.
Publisher: RosettaBooks
ISBN: 0795334737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
The US journalist’s account of his colleague’s struggle to survive the Cambodian genocide—the basis for the Oscar–winning film The Killing Fields. On April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge soldiers seized Phnom Penh—the capital of Cambodia—and began a brutal genocide that left millions dead. Dith Pran, a Cambodian working as an assistant to American reporter Sydney H. Schanberg, was a witness to these events. While his employer managed to escape across the border, Dith Pran fled into the Cambodian countryside—and into the heart of the massacre. The basis for the acclaimed movie The Killing Fields, this is the compelling account of the days before the fall of Phnom Penh. It’s the story of one man’s struggle for survival in a country that had become a death camp for millions of its citizens—and another man’s failed efforts to keep his friend and colleague safe. Written within a year of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge, it is a work of both historical and literary significance. Sydney H. Schanberg contributed a moving new foreword to this first eBook edition.
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields
Author: Kim DePaul
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300078732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher Fact Sheet This extraordinary collection of eyewitness accounts by Cambodian survivors of Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s offers searing testimony to an era of brutality, brainwashing, betrayals, starvation, & gruesome executions.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300078732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher Fact Sheet This extraordinary collection of eyewitness accounts by Cambodian survivors of Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s offers searing testimony to an era of brutality, brainwashing, betrayals, starvation, & gruesome executions.
The Killing Fields
Author: Sydney Schanberg
Publisher: Coronet
ISBN: 9780340367933
Category : Cambodia
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: Coronet
ISBN: 9780340367933
Category : Cambodia
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Church Behind the Wire
Author: Barnabas Mam
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802483151
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
From the oppression and terror of the killing fields in Cambodia, this is the story of how one man's conversion led to a rebirth of faith that brought hope to a nation. Commissioned by Communists to spy on a Christian evangelistic crusade, Barnabas Mam instead discovered Jesus and came to faith in Him. After spending four years in prison camps at the hands of the Khmer Rouge Barnabas emerged as one of only 200 surviving Christians in all of Cambodia. God raised him up to became the foremost evangelist and church planter in a land broken by genocide. An inspiring story on a personal, church, and national level, this is more than a narrative--it's a blueprint for success for church growth of the most powerful kind.
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802483151
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
From the oppression and terror of the killing fields in Cambodia, this is the story of how one man's conversion led to a rebirth of faith that brought hope to a nation. Commissioned by Communists to spy on a Christian evangelistic crusade, Barnabas Mam instead discovered Jesus and came to faith in Him. After spending four years in prison camps at the hands of the Khmer Rouge Barnabas emerged as one of only 200 surviving Christians in all of Cambodia. God raised him up to became the foremost evangelist and church planter in a land broken by genocide. An inspiring story on a personal, church, and national level, this is more than a narrative--it's a blueprint for success for church growth of the most powerful kind.
From Rice Fields to Killing Fields
Author: James A. Tyner
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654227
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time, as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant interpretation of Cambodian history during this period presents the CPK as a totalitarian, communist, and autarkic regime seeking to reorganize Cambodian society around a primitive, agrarian political economy. From Rice Fields to Killing Fields challenges previous interpretations and provides a documentary-based Marxist interpretation of the political economy of Democratic Kampuchea. Tyner argues that Cambodia’s mass violence was the consequence not of the deranged attitudes and paranoia of a few tyrannical leaders but that the violence was structural, the direct result of a series of political and economic reforms that were designed to accumulate capital rapidly: the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of people through forced evacuations, the imposition of starvation wages, the promotion of import-substitution policies, and the intensification of agricultural production through forced labor. Moving beyond the Cambodian genocide, Tyner maintains that it is a mistake to view Democratic Kampuchea in isolation, as an aberration or something unique. Rather, the policies and practices initiated by the Khmer Rouge must be seen in a larger, historical-geographical context.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654227
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time, as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant interpretation of Cambodian history during this period presents the CPK as a totalitarian, communist, and autarkic regime seeking to reorganize Cambodian society around a primitive, agrarian political economy. From Rice Fields to Killing Fields challenges previous interpretations and provides a documentary-based Marxist interpretation of the political economy of Democratic Kampuchea. Tyner argues that Cambodia’s mass violence was the consequence not of the deranged attitudes and paranoia of a few tyrannical leaders but that the violence was structural, the direct result of a series of political and economic reforms that were designed to accumulate capital rapidly: the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of people through forced evacuations, the imposition of starvation wages, the promotion of import-substitution policies, and the intensification of agricultural production through forced labor. Moving beyond the Cambodian genocide, Tyner maintains that it is a mistake to view Democratic Kampuchea in isolation, as an aberration or something unique. Rather, the policies and practices initiated by the Khmer Rouge must be seen in a larger, historical-geographical context.
Survival in the Killing Fields
Author: Haing Ngor
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472103882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. Here, in his memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, is a searing account of a country's descent into hell. His was a world of war slaves and execution squads, of senseless brutality and mind-numbing torture; where families ceased to be and only a very special love could soar above the squalor, starvation and disease. An eyewitness account of the real killing fields by an extraordinary survivor, this book is a reminder of the horrors of war - and a testament to the enduring human spirit.
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472103882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. Here, in his memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, is a searing account of a country's descent into hell. His was a world of war slaves and execution squads, of senseless brutality and mind-numbing torture; where families ceased to be and only a very special love could soar above the squalor, starvation and disease. An eyewitness account of the real killing fields by an extraordinary survivor, this book is a reminder of the horrors of war - and a testament to the enduring human spirit.
The Killing Fields of Inequality
Author: Göran Therborn
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745679919
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world. This book shows that inequality is literally a killing field, with millions of people dying premature deaths because of it. These lethal effects of inequality operate not only in the poor world, but also, and increasingly, in rich countries, as Therborn demonstrates with data ranging from the US, the UK, Finland and elsewhere. Even when they survive inequality, millions of human lives are stunted by the humiliations and degradations of inequality linked to gender, race and ethnicity, and class. But this book is about experiences of equalization too, highlighting moments and processes of equalization in different parts of the world - from India and other parts of Asia, from the Americas, as well as from Europe. South Africa illustrates the toughest challenges. The killing fields of inequality can be avoided: this book shows how. Clear, succinct, wide-ranging in scope and empirical in its approach, this timely book by one of the world’s leading social scientists will appeal to a wide readership.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745679919
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world. This book shows that inequality is literally a killing field, with millions of people dying premature deaths because of it. These lethal effects of inequality operate not only in the poor world, but also, and increasingly, in rich countries, as Therborn demonstrates with data ranging from the US, the UK, Finland and elsewhere. Even when they survive inequality, millions of human lives are stunted by the humiliations and degradations of inequality linked to gender, race and ethnicity, and class. But this book is about experiences of equalization too, highlighting moments and processes of equalization in different parts of the world - from India and other parts of Asia, from the Americas, as well as from Europe. South Africa illustrates the toughest challenges. The killing fields of inequality can be avoided: this book shows how. Clear, succinct, wide-ranging in scope and empirical in its approach, this timely book by one of the world’s leading social scientists will appeal to a wide readership.
Miracles in the Forgotten Land and Beyond
Author: Setan Lee
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 9781609577742
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
MIRACLES IN THE FORGOTTEN LAND and BEYONDEighteen year-old Setan Lee was in shock as soldiers jumped out of huge trucks in Battambang Temple Square, shouting, "Enemies!" and pointing guns at them. This was the New Year celebration and they had no idea why these "black uniform soldiers" were ordering them out of the city at gunpoint to an unknown destination. Setan's best friend asked one of the soldiers why they were calling them the enemy. He answered with gunshots that left Setan's friend dead at his feet!Thirteen-year-old Randa Yos was at home in Battambang with her family that fateful day when they heard shouting in the street, ordering people to come out of their homes into the streets. They had just learned that the black uniform soldiers had taken her father from his office at the University. They and thousands of others were forced at gunpoint to march to an unknown destination.That day began four years of slavery and starvation in the killing fields for thousands of Cambodians. The horror of Setan and Randa's lives during their imprisonment and how they finally escaped will hold you spellbound as you read their story.About the authors: Shelba Hammond is the personal assistant to Setan and Randa Lee, and manages the Colorado office for their TransformAsia ministries. Through many hours of working alongside the Lee's, hearing their stories, reading what has been written about or by Setan and Randa, Shelba has put their story together. It is their desire that God is glorified by this story, and that it will touch the hearts and lives of everyone who reads it.
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 9781609577742
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
MIRACLES IN THE FORGOTTEN LAND and BEYONDEighteen year-old Setan Lee was in shock as soldiers jumped out of huge trucks in Battambang Temple Square, shouting, "Enemies!" and pointing guns at them. This was the New Year celebration and they had no idea why these "black uniform soldiers" were ordering them out of the city at gunpoint to an unknown destination. Setan's best friend asked one of the soldiers why they were calling them the enemy. He answered with gunshots that left Setan's friend dead at his feet!Thirteen-year-old Randa Yos was at home in Battambang with her family that fateful day when they heard shouting in the street, ordering people to come out of their homes into the streets. They had just learned that the black uniform soldiers had taken her father from his office at the University. They and thousands of others were forced at gunpoint to march to an unknown destination.That day began four years of slavery and starvation in the killing fields for thousands of Cambodians. The horror of Setan and Randa's lives during their imprisonment and how they finally escaped will hold you spellbound as you read their story.About the authors: Shelba Hammond is the personal assistant to Setan and Randa Lee, and manages the Colorado office for their TransformAsia ministries. Through many hours of working alongside the Lee's, hearing their stories, reading what has been written about or by Setan and Randa, Shelba has put their story together. It is their desire that God is glorified by this story, and that it will touch the hearts and lives of everyone who reads it.
The Cold War's Killing Fields
Author: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062367226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This sweeping, international military history boldly reframes the Cold War as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century. The Cold War has long been viewed as a tense diplomatic standoff between global superpowers representing democracy and communism. Yet it fostered a series of deadly conflicts on battlegrounds across the postcolonial world. For half a century, as an uneasy accord hung over Europe, ferocious wars raged in the Cold War’s killing fields, resulting in more than fourteen million dead—victims who remain largely forgotten and all but lost to history. A superb work of scholarship, The Cold War’s Killing Fields is the first global military history of this conflict and the first full accounting of its devastating impact. More than previous armed conflicts, the wars of the post-1945 era ravaged civilians across vast stretches of territory, from Korea and Vietnam to Bangladesh and Afghanistan to Iraq and Lebanon. Chamberlin provides an understanding of this sweeping history from the ground up and offers a moving portrait of human suffering, capturing the voices of those who experienced the brutal warfare. Chamberlin explores in detail the numerous battles fought to prevent nuclear war, bolster the strategic hegemony of the United States and the USSR, and determine the fates of societies throughout the Third World.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062367226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This sweeping, international military history boldly reframes the Cold War as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century. The Cold War has long been viewed as a tense diplomatic standoff between global superpowers representing democracy and communism. Yet it fostered a series of deadly conflicts on battlegrounds across the postcolonial world. For half a century, as an uneasy accord hung over Europe, ferocious wars raged in the Cold War’s killing fields, resulting in more than fourteen million dead—victims who remain largely forgotten and all but lost to history. A superb work of scholarship, The Cold War’s Killing Fields is the first global military history of this conflict and the first full accounting of its devastating impact. More than previous armed conflicts, the wars of the post-1945 era ravaged civilians across vast stretches of territory, from Korea and Vietnam to Bangladesh and Afghanistan to Iraq and Lebanon. Chamberlin provides an understanding of this sweeping history from the ground up and offers a moving portrait of human suffering, capturing the voices of those who experienced the brutal warfare. Chamberlin explores in detail the numerous battles fought to prevent nuclear war, bolster the strategic hegemony of the United States and the USSR, and determine the fates of societies throughout the Third World.