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. This is a highly compelling story of cruel, sadistic oppression masquerading as ideology and should be heard by anyone who cares about freedom. (Haing Ngor was recently murdered in front of his Los Angeles home).
language: English
title: Surviving the Killing Fields
titlecomplete: Surviving the Killing Fields
genres: Biography Memoir, Memoir, Asia, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, War, Historical, Survival, Biography
ratings_count: 3410
places: Cambodia
publisher: ISIS Large Print Books