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Grade 6-10-- Saloth Sar, alias Pol Pot, is such a shadowy figure in real life that it is difficult to come up with enough material for a decent biography. Stefoff has done as well as anyone can in portraying this elusive character who has successfully covered his past, evaded interviewers and followers alike, and remains extremely camera shy, but readers won't come away with any real feeling for Pol Pot as a human being. The author has carefully woven what is known about him into the tapestry of better-known facts about the Khmer Rouge regime and its endless atrocities. Generous quotations from eyewitnesses and photos of the Khmer Rouge in action all add to a better understanding of the time. The few available pictures of Pol Pot himself show a smiling, portly, almost fatherly figure. Up-to-date, the book covers the current maneuverings of all parties concerned in Cambodia, as well as information on an international human rights group pledged to bring Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge to trial for genocide. As a biography, this is a failure through no fault of the author; biographical information is just too slender to sustain a full treatment. As historical reportage, however, Pol Pot succeeds admirably as a well-written and logically presented catalogue of a fanatic regime and a lesson in modern history. --John Philbrook, San Francisco Public Library
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherChelsea House
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0791006832
- ISBN 13 9780791006832
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages111
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