{"title":"Philip Short","description":"Philip Short has been a foreign correspondent for The Times (London), The Economist, and the BBC in Uganda, Moscow, China, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of the definitive biography of Mao Tse-tung, and lived in China and Cambodia in the 1970s and early 1980s, where he has returned regularly ever since. He now lives in southern France.","products":[{"product_id":"pol-pot-anatomy-of-a-nightmare-paperback","title":"Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A superb, authoritative account of the man and the madness that transformed Cambodia, almost overnight, into hell on earth\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe leading biographer offers a searing, firsthand account of the despot's ideology and the horrors of his reign. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Observing Pol Pot at close quarters during the one and only official visit he ever made abroad, to China in 1975, Philip Short was struck by the Cambodian leader's charm and charisma. Yet Pol Pot's utopian experiments in social engineering would result in the death of one in every five Cambodians--more than a million people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How did an idealistic dream of justice and prosperity mutate into one of humanity's worst nightmares? To answer these questions, Short traveled through Cambodia, interviewing former Khmer Rouge leaders and sifting through previously closed archives around the world. Key figures, including Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary, Pol's brother-in-law and foreign minister, speak here for the first time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShort's masterly narrative serves as the definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Short chronicles the stages of the Cambodian revolution with admirable clarity . . . A few chilling details, expertly deployed, do the necessary work.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A spectacularly efficient job of describing what happened and why . . . A chillingly clear portrait.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366146638047,"sku":"9780805080063","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/07OZYD74RX9780805080063.webp?v=1789084433"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/philip-short.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}