The remarkable early account of life in Pol Pot's Cambodia now available in English translation for the first time...among the earliest most detailed and most vividly rendered accounts of the Khmer Rouge revolution...The book available to English readers for the first time in Matthew Madden's sparkling translation is a priceless new addition to the testimonial literature on the Khmer Rouge which sheds new light on one of the greatest tragedies-indeed crimes-of the twentieth century. -Sebastian S