- Politics and government, Juvenile Nonfiction, Political atrocities, Political refugees
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.
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- Author
- Nawuth Keat
- First published
- 2009
- Publisher
- National Geographic Society, National Geographic
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781426305153
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