In this political biography, David P. Chandler throws light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot. Basing his study on interviews and on a wide range of sources in English, Cambodian and French, he illuminates the ideas and behaviour of this enigmatic man and his entourage against the background of post-World War II events, providing a key to this horrific, pivotal period of Cambodian history. Cont…
Pol Pot is an extraordinarily challenging subject, for no modern revolutionary leader has so purposefully, and successfully, left so little trace. And he certainly deserves his enigmatic reputation: an indifferent student, he became a gifted teacher; an amiable mediocrity as a youth, he led (leads) one of the world's toughest guerrilla organizations; described by all who knew him as polite, cha…