Pol Pot was one of the most secretive Communist leaders. So secretive, in fact, that for quite some time, almost no one knew he led the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare, Philip Short looks at the life the man responsible for the deaths of one-fifth of Cambodia’s population in just three years.

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