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  • MORE LUCK THAN ANYTHING

    Surviving Pol Pot, A Boy's Story

    In 2007 I was working with a Cambodian colleague who was responsible for managing our IT section. We kept in touch after he moved to another department. Over the course of a year (2015) Richard began to tell me the story of his life under the Khmer RougeHe and his family originally came from Pailin, a relatively lawless area close to the Thai border. Pailin is known for its gemstones and the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • More Luck Than Anything

    Surviving Pol Pot, A Boy's Story

    by JOHN IVANAC ...
    In 1975 Richard Heng, aged five, entered one of a network of Khmer Rouge labour camps at Sadao in western Cambodia. He emerged at the age of ten, having worked under the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge for five long arduous years.This is the remarkable story of Richard and his entire family’s survival: first in the Khmer Rouge camps and then as refugees for three perilous years along the Thai ... Read more

    $41.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Luck Than Anything, Surviving Pol Pot, A Boy's Story

    In 1975, a five year old Richard Heng entered one of the Khmer Rouge's labour camps at Sadao in western Cambodia. He emerged at ten, having endured five years of forced labour under the brutal regime. This book recounts Richard's remarkable survival — first in the camps, then as a refugee along the Thai Cambodia border for three perilous years. In 1982, after years of hardship and exile, Richard's ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Survival in the Killing Fields

    by Haing Ngor ...
    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 mind ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • When the War Was Over

    Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition

    The "definitive" (Los Angeles Times), award-winning history of Cambodia and Pol Pot's rise to power, tracing the country's modern origins to the human rights abuses that reshaped it foreverAward-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Cambodia's Curse

    The Modern History of a Troubled Land

    by Joel Brinkley ...
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.Although ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Killing for Profit

    Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade

    A terrifying true story of greed, corruption, depravity and ruthless criminal enterprise … On the black markets of Southeast Asia, rhino horn is worth more than gold, cocaine and heroin. This is the chilling story of a more than two-year-long investigation into a dangerous criminal underworld where merciless syndicates will stop at nothing to attain their prize. It is a tale of greed, folly and ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Deadly Deceits

    My 25 Years in the CIA

    Series Book 11 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency unmasks its culture of lethal lies in this devastating exposé, now with a new foreword by David MacMichael.Ralph W. McGehee was a patriot, dedicated to the American way of life and the international fight against Communism. Following his graduation with honors from Notre Dame, McGehee was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1952 and quickly ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alive in the Killing Fields

    Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide

    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Landbridge

    life in fragments

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Shortlisted for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes • A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year • One of CBC’s Best Canadian Nonfiction Books of the Year • The inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf Canada: A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to Canada as a baby, escaping war in Cambodia.In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60 ... Read more

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  • Poached

    Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking

    An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders, and the customers--and of those fighting against itJournalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. Our insatiable demand for animals -- for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur -- is ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • The Man Who Stole the Gods

    A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy

    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE SABEW 2026 BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDSThe shocking true story of the prolific art smuggler who looted the cultural treasures of a war-torn nation—and the global network that connects criminals like him to billionaire collectors, glittering auction houses, and world-famous museums“An epic tale of art, war, and crime.”—Stuart A. Reid, author of The Lumumba Plot“An ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD