The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer

by Thierry Cruvellier

Book Overview

Renowned journalist Thierry Cruvellier takes us into the dark heart of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge with The Master of Confessions, a suspenseful account of a Chief Interrogator's trial for war crimes.

On April 17, 1975, the communist Khmer Rouge, led by its secretive prime minister Pol Pot, took over Cambodia. Renaming the country Democratic Kampuchea, they cut the nation off from the world and began systematically killing and starving two million...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062329545
• ISBN13: 9780062329547
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"