Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare. Philip Short art & photography 'Books this ingenious don't come

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Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare. Philip Short art & photography 'Books this ingenious don't comeObserving 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. How did an idealistic dream of justice and prosperity mutate into one of humanity's worst nightmares? To answer these questions,