Author: Simon Scarrow
Publisher: Review
ISBN: 0755353447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 555
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THE FIELDS OF DEATH is the epic final novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon Quartet. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell. 1809. Viscount Wellington and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte have made their mark as military commanders. Lifelong enemies, they both believe their armies are strong enough to destroy any rival. But in war victory can never be certain. While Wellington's success continues in Spain, Napoleon feels the sting of failure. Yet despite a disastrous Russian campaign and humiliating defeat at Leipzig, he persists in fighting on. With Napoleon's power waning, the newly titled Duke of Wellington is perfectly placed to crush the tyrant. But his enemy refuses to surrender, and so the two giants must face a final reckoning on the bloody battlefield of Waterloo...
Author: Michael Dahl
Publisher: Stone Arch Books
ISBN: 1496583132
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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Pursued by a killer cyborg tank and surrounded by snakes that spit fire, teenage friends Zak and Erro the furling from the planet Quom, must figure out a way to survive if they are ever to escape from the prison planet called Alcatraz--a situation they are in because they stowed away on a space ship they did not know was headed here.
Author: Jason Fields
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615732091
Category : Jewish ghettos
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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On a frozen morning in 1941, in the Jewish ghetto of Miasto, Poland, a body is found with its head smashed in. Corpses are as common as paving stones in Miasto, but when it's discovered the dead man is an officer of the Ghetto Police, the Jewish authorities know they must act quickly. Made up of collaborators, the force is a symbol of Nazi authority, and the death of one of its officers will bring dire reprisals on the entire community. Aaron Kaminski, a Jewish smuggler and former officer of the Polish national police, is tasked with a job no one wants. To keep the Nazi forces from bringing the entire ghetto to its knees, Aaron must present the Germans with the criminal before they learn of the crime. Inspired by interviews of Holocaust survivors and their children, "Death in Twilight" leads the reader on a quest for a killer in a world where death rules and murder has lost its meaning.
Author: Terri Fields
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 080507127X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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Author: Nawuth Keat
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 142630515X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Alive in the Killing Fields is the real-life memoir of Nawuth Keat, a man who survived the horrors of war-torn Cambodia. He has now broken a longtime silence in the hope that telling the truth about what happened to his people and his country will spare future generations from similar tragedy. In this captivating memoir, a young Nawuth defies the odds and survives the invasion of his homeland by the Khmer Rouge. Under the brutal reign of the dictator Pol Pot, he loses his parents, young sister, and other members of his family. After his hometown of Salatrave was overrun, Nawuth and his remaining relatives are eventually captured and enslaved by Khmer Rouge fighters. They endure physical abuse, hunger, and inhumane living conditions. But through it all, their sense of family holds them together, giving them the strength to persevere through a time when any assertion of identity is punishable by death. Nawuth’s story of survival and escape from the Killing Fields of Cambodia is also a message of hope; an inspiration to children whose worlds have been darkened by hardship and separation from loved ones. This story provides a timeless lesson in the value of human dignity and freedom for readers of all ages.
Author: Peter Scholl-Latour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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For over thirty years, the world's ideologies have been fought out in the ricefields and jungles, the towns and cities of Indochina. In this remarkable eye-witness account the author has condensed all his experiences and observations of those wars into a series of graphic images. Sights, sounds, and smells come alive in a vivid recreation of one of the most tragic battlegrounds of modern history. The author, a TV reporter and journalist, has a unique knowledge of this troubled area having visited it many times while covering three successive wars - the war against French colonialism, the American involvement in Vietnam, and the final devastation of Kampuchea, as the French, the Americans and the Khmer Rouge have each in turn tried to impose their own version of freedom upon others by force. This is a major new account of the most important area of conflict in modern times.
Author: James A. Tyner
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654227
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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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.
Author: Gina Chon
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201590
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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In recent history, atrocities have often been committed in the name of lofty ideals. One of the most disturbing examples took place in Cambodia's Killing Fields, where tens of thousands of victims were executed and hastily disposed of by Khmer Rouge cadres. Nearly thirty years after these bloody purges, two journalists entered the jungles of Cambodia to uncover secrets still buried there. Based on more than 1,000 hours of interviews with the top surviving Khmer Rouge leader, Nuon Chea, Behind the Killing Fields follows the journey of a man who began as a dedicated freedom fighter and wound up accused of crimes against humanity. Known as Brother Number 2, Chea was Pol Pot's top lieutenant. He is now in prison, facing prosecution in a United Nations-Cambodian tribunal for his actions during the Khmer Rouge rule, when more than two million Cambodians died. The book traces how the seeds of the Killing Fields were sown and what led one man to believe that mass killing was necessary for the greater good. Coauthor Sambath Thet, a Khmer Rouge survivor, shares his personal perspectives on the murderous regime and how some victims have managed to rebuild their lives. The stories of Nuon Chea and Sambath Thet collide when the two meet. While Thet holds Chea responsible for the death of his parents and brother, he strives for understanding over revenge in order to reveal the forces that destroyed his homeland in the name of creating utopia. In this age of suicide bombers and terror alerts, the world is still at a loss to comprehend the violence of zealots. Behind the Killing Fields bravely confronts this challenge in an exclusive portrait of one man's political madness and another's personal wisdom.
Author: Sokphal Din
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789493056732
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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'The Killing Fields of Cambodia' is a tale of survival through generosity, resourcefulness, and the strength of family. Harrowing, yet always hopeful, Sokphal's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.
Author: Nancy Kay Moyer
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 9780310538912
Category : Cambodia
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Escape from the Killing Fields tells the true story of Ly Lorn, a young Cambodian woman caught up in the genocide that took place in the 1970s. The lone Christian in her Buddhist family, Ly Lorn's love of God illuminated her walk through that horrible valley of death that was Cambodia.
