Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land

Joel Brinkley

Black Incorporated, 2011 - Cambodia - 386 pages

A generation after Pol Pot's regime killed one quarter of the nation's population, Cambodia shows every outward sign of having overcome its devastating history the streets of Phnom Penh are paved; skyscrapers dot the skyline. But behind this faȧde lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.

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User Review  - zmagic69 - LibraryThing

Great book, providing a high level overview of Cambodia. From the rise of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, to Vietnam taking over the country in 1979, to the UN getting involved. The primary focus of the ...

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User Review  - HadriantheBlind - LibraryThing

Cambodia - one of the worst suffering lands in Asia, comparable in some areas only to Burma or North Korea. The author does a good job at chronicling the sufferings of the people - corruption, famine ...

About the author

Joel Brinkley, a professor of journalism at Stanford University, is a twenty-three-year veteran of the New York Times. He has worked in more than fifty nations and writes a nationally syndicated op-ed column on foreign policy. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980 and was twice a finalist for an investigative reporting Pulitzer in the following years. This is his fifth book.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
• Author: Joel Brinkley
• Publisher: Black Incorporated, 2011
• ISBN: 1863955275, 9781863955270
• Length: 386 pages