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Documenting the secret war the United States waged in Laos from 1960 to 1973, an account reveals guerrilla raids, warring princes, and a CIA operative who raised an army in a series of events that led to the Vietnam War. 20,000 first printing.

Reveals guerrilla raids, warring princes, and a CIA operative who raised an army in a series of events that led to the Vietnam War

Product Description: For his role as the journalist Dith Pran in the 1984 film The Killing Fields, Haing Ngor, a Cambodian doctor with no acting experience, won an Oscar. In playing the part, he drew on his own tormented life as a war slave during the Cambodian civil war...read more

The author shares his first hand account of life under the Khmer Rouge regime and explains how he survived

Closed to visitors for almost twenty years, the ancient city of Angkor, which lies hidden in the jungles of Cambodia, is revealed by a photographer and a journalist

The author, winner of an Academy Award for his role in 'The Killing Fields,' tells his own story of flight from the Khmer Rouge who forced him underground where he worked as a doctor at his own peril

Offers an in-depth look at the big business of marijuana cultivation and trade by focusing on the careers of several smuggling entrepreneurs, drug enforcement operatives, and other members of the drug war