The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66

by Geoffrey B. Robinson

Book Overview

The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century--the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention.

An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets out to account for this violence and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691161380
• ISBN13: 9780691161389
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.4"