Survivor of the Killing Fields

Survivor of the Killing Fields by Ngor, Haing S.. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780701131876.

"He became famous through his academy award-winning performance as Dith Pran in the film The Killing Fields, but the key to Haing Ngors screen success was the terrible truth of his own experiences in the rice paddies and labor camps of revolutionary Cambodia." Here, in a gripping memoir of life under the communist Khmer Rouge regime, he reveals the countrys descent into a hell beyond our a world of war slaves and senseless brutality, where family life simply ceases to be. But with the pain he also gives us hope and an illuminating example of how the best sort of love can actually be strengthened through the shared experience of a life-threatening ordeal. An eyewitness account of the real killing fields by an extraordinary survivor, this book is both a reminder of the horrors of war and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.