The Killing Fields
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The Killing Fields tells of Cambodia in the upheaval that ended with the Khmer Rouge seizing Phnom Penh in April 1975. At its centre are the American journalist Sydney Schanberg and his Cambodian colleague Dith Pran, whose working partnership and friendship were tested as the city emptied and foreigners were evacuated. Pran chose to stay behind, and his fate under the new regime became the heart of the story.
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Christopher Hudson sets this personal ordeal within the wider collapse of a country, showing how ordinary people were caught between a brutal revolutionary government and a war that had spread far beyond its borders.
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