{"product_id":"when-the-war-was-over-9781541706415","title":"When the War Was Over","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe authoritative history of the Cambodian Revolution and its aftermath   \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“An impressive feat of scholarship and reporting: intelligent, measured, resourceful.”  —\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe day they took over Cambodia in 1975, the Khmer Rouge closed the borders and drove the citizens out of towns and cities into the countryside, where they were forced to labor endlessly in the fields. Torture, terror, starvation, and death became routine. The intelligentsia was exterminated. Ultimately, almost two million people—nearly a quarter of the Cambodian population—were killed in one of the twentieth century’s worst crimes against humanity. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen the War Was Over \u003c\/i\u003eis award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker’s masterful history of the Cambodian nightmare, from its origins in French colonialism and the Vietnam War, to dictator Pol Pot’s political education in Paris, to the killing fields across Cambodia. In this newly updated edition, Becker lays out the impact of the Khmer Rouge genocide on modern Cambodia.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eComprehensive, compassionate, and propulsive, \u003ci\u003eWhen the War Was Over \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates the darkness of Cambodia with the intensity of a bolt of lightning. \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137062715570,"sku":"9781541706415","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0536\/7418\/0786\/files\/O_ba66eb52-c6e8-48ec-8267-734f62667fef.jpg?v=1779163434","url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/when-the-war-was-over-9781541706415","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}