To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge

In one of the most powerful memoirs of persecution ever written Denise Affonco recounts how her comfortable life in Phnom Penh was torn apart when the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia in April 1975. As a French citizen Denise was offered a choice: flee to France with her children or stay in Cambodia with her husband who did not have a French passport. Denise chose to stay in Cambodia. There along with millions of fellow citizens her family was deported to a living hell in the countryside. For almost four years they endured hard labour famine sickness and death. First written as a testimony of her ordeal just months after her liberation in 1979 Denise Affoncos account is a raw and harrowing tale of survival against terrifying odds.