Survival in the Killing Fields

Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. Here, in his memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, is a searing account of a country''s descent into hell. His was a world of war slaves and execution squads, of senseless brutality and m...