Road to the killing fields: the Cambodian war of 1970-1975
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Texas A&M University Press
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1997
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1st ed
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English
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"The 1970-75 war in Cambodia directly involved the United States, contributed to the downfall of an American president, led to the "killing fields," and explains much of what has since happened in Cambodia. Yet, because U.S. involvement in that part of Southeast Asia was largely clandestine, the American people know little about it, regarding the fighting in Cambodia as a small sideshow to the Vietnam War. In fact, it was a full-scale war in which a small nation, sucked into the vortex of Cold War geopolitics, was propelled into one of history's bloodiest, most brutal periods." "This is the first book to deal exclusively with the military aspects of the Cambodian War. In its introductory chapters Wilfred P. Deac describes Cambodia and its people, the decades of French colonialism, and the early years of independence under Prince Sihanouk." "In the balance of the book, Deac describes the events of the five years of warfare: the early American and South Vietnamese incursions and the first Cambodian government offensives; the battle for control of the countryside, lost by the government; the corruption, popular unrest, and political in-fighting that weakened the government; the ascendancy of the Khmer Rouge over their North Vietnamese allies; the nonstop, 189-day American bombing offensive in 1973; the siege, strangulation, and fall of Phnom Penh; and the introduction of the horror of the killing fields. A brief afterword looks at Cambodian postwar policies, the Khmer Rouge-Vietnamese War of 1978-79, and today's prostrate Cambodia, an inevitable result of war."--Jacket.
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Bu?rgerkrieg
Bürgerkrieg
Cambodge -- 1970-1975 (Guerre civile)
Cambodge -- Histoire -- 1970-1975 (Guerre civile)
Cambodia
Cambodia -- History -- Civil War, 1970-1975
Civil wars
Electronic books
Genocide
Histoire
HISTORY
History & Archaeology
International criminal law
International politics
Kambodscha
Khmer Rouge
Massacres
Politics
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East
Southeast Asia
Bürgerkrieg
Cambodge -- 1970-1975 (Guerre civile)
Cambodge -- Histoire -- 1970-1975 (Guerre civile)
Cambodia
Cambodia -- History -- Civil War, 1970-1975
Civil wars
Electronic books
Genocide
Histoire
HISTORY
History & Archaeology
International criminal law
International politics
Kambodscha
Khmer Rouge
Massacres
Politics
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East
Southeast Asia
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Electronic books
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HISTORY
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History & Archaeology
International criminal law
International politics
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Khmer Rouge
Massacres
Politics
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Southeast Asia
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Road to the killing fields : the Cambodian war of 1970-1975
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Road to the killing fields : the Cambodian war of 1970-1975 / Wilfred P. Deac ; foreword by Col. Harry G. Summers, Jr.
Road to the killing fields : the Cambodian war of 1970-1975 / Wilfred P. Deac ; foreword by Harry G. Summers, Jr.
Road to the killing fields : the Cambodian war of 1970-1975 / Wilfred P. Deac ; foreword by Harry G. Summers, Jr.
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History & Archaeology
International criminal law
International politics
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Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East
Southeast Asia
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