Word: cambodia
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...into its splendor; so, too, did America?a secular promised land?allow the world's dispossessed to believe its liberty, and its prosperity, could one day be theirs as well. They forgave or overlooked U.S. foreign-policy sins such as a coddled dictator in the Philippines, illegal invasions in Cambodia or deadly subterfuge in Laos. The stirring ideals of America's founding fathers continued to resonate abroad even if the ideals' caretakers occasionally ignored them...
...Born on a British army base in Germany?his father was in the Royal Irish Fusiliers?Swaffield has led a life of wanted-by-Interpol restlessness in which Hong Kong, the Philippines and (his next destination) Cambodia are all places he calls home. He started out?at age 15?drawing for famous British comics The Dandy and The Beano. Even now, after stints as both a Ralph Lauren designer and a Hong Kong-based corporate artist, he has not forgotten his first love: witness the deliciously twisted (and unpublished) comic strip called Cheap Charlie: the Mental Moon, featuring a hapless...
...atrocities of the Third Reich and the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in World War II have been extensively archived in survivors' accounts, scholarly histories and documentary films. Yet the gruesome orgy of self-vivisection carried out in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1978 left behind far fewer records. History in Cambodia remains intertwined with legend, as it has since the classical era of Angkor, and the regime's reign of terror was hideously efficient, leaving very few survivors to give witness to the inner workings of the machinery of death...
...Bizot's account of the fall of Phnom Penh draws its power from an accretion of appalling images, coolly observed: the pavement before the National Bank of Cambodia strewn with bales of newly worthless bank notes; a former Prime Minister's wife trying to throw her baby over the embassy fence, before she is led away to be executed; a prince of the ancien r?gime, wearing his Legion of Honor medal, being turned away from the gate...
...times deeply moving, The Gate is ultimately more historical document than literary memoir. Bizot assumes that his readers have a thorough knowledge of modern Cambodian history, sometimes identifying even obscure figures by surname only. Although future historians may not find in The Gate the definitive history of Cambodia's genocide, as a witness to that terror, Bizot's account will surely inspire an enduring fascination...