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Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide (National Geographic-memoirs) by Nawuth Keat, Martha E. Kendall is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Alive in the Killing Fields is the real-life memoir of Nawuth Keat, a man who survived the horrors of war-torn Cambodia. He has now broken a longtime silence in the hope that telling the truth about what happened to his people and his country will spare future generations from similar tragedy. In this captivating memoir, a young Nawuth defies the odds and survives the invasion of his homeland by the Khmer Rouge. Under the brutal reign of the dictator Pol Pot, he loses his parents, young sister, and other members of his family. After his hometown of Salatrave was overrun, Nawuth and his remaining relatives are eventually captured and enslaved by Khmer Rouge fighters. They endure physical abuse, hunger, and inhumane living conditions. But through it all, their sense of family holds them together, giving them the strength to persevere through a time when any assertion of identity is punishable by death. Nawuth's story of survival and escape from the Killing Fields of Cambodia is also a message of hope; an inspiration to children whose worlds have been darkened by hardship and separation from loved ones. This story provides a timeless lesson in the value of human dignity and freedom f

Who reads Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide (National Geographic-memoirs)?

Author

Nawuth Keat, Martha E. Kendall

Publisher

National Geographic Society

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299571853

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (96 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14