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" Before the killing fields : "
Leslie Fielding.
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BL
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951558
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b705928
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| Main Entry
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Fielding, Leslie,Sir.
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Before the killing fields : : witness to Cambodia and the Vietnam War /\ Leslie Fielding.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: I.B. Tauris,, 2008.
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1 online resource (xxxii, 261 pages) :: illustrations, map
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0857710788
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: 1282750852
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: 1435691245
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: 6000011350
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: 9780857710789
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: 9781282750852
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: 9781435691247
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: 9786000011352
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1845114930
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9781845114930
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Mob at the Chancery gates -- 2. The number one twister -- 3. Chez Madame Chhum -- 4. Friendly fire.
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This is a gripping portrait of a country poised between peace and war. In the mid-1960s, Cambodia's position within South East Asia was highly vulnerable. The Americans were embroiled in war in Vietnam, the Viet Cong were gaining clandestine control over Cambodian frontier areas, while the Cambodian government - under the leadership of a charming but difficult Head of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk - wanted nothing more than to preserve their neutrality and keep out of the war. Highly distrustful of any perceived foreign interference, the Cambodians had even rioted and attacked the American an.
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Fielding, Leslie
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Diplomats-- Great Britain, Biography.
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Diplomatic relations.
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Diplomats.
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HISTORY.
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Politics and government.
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Politik
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Cambodia, Foreign relations, Great Britain.
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Cambodia, History, 1953-1975.
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Cambodia, Politics and government.
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Great Britain, Foreign relations, Cambodia.
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Cambodia.
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Great Britain.
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Kambodscha.
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| Dewey Classification
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959.604092
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DS554.8.F54 2008eb
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