There is an extensive literature dealing with radicalism in France in the 1950s. See, for example, Alain Besançon, Une generation (Paris 1987); E. Leroy Ladurie, Paris-Montpellier (Paris, 1982); and Dominique Dessanti, Les staliniens (Paris, 1975). Jeanine Verdès-Leroux, Au service du parti: Le parti communiste, les intellectuels, et la culture, 1944—1956 (Paris, 1986), is a penetrating analysis. See also Frank S. Meyer, The Making of Communists (New York, 1961); and Edward Upward, The Spiral Ascent (London, 1967), an interesting fictional account by a former British Communist. Janet Flanner, Paris Journal, 1944-1955 (New York, 1988), is an excellent introduction to the ambience of the period. For Saloth Sar’s time in Paris, see Kiernan, HPP; and François Debré, Cambodge: La revolutiou de la forêt (Paris 1976).

Sihanouk’s years in power are dealt with perceptively in Milton Osborne, Power and Politics in Cambodia (Melbourne, 1973); and in Osborne, Sihanouk Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness (Honolulu, 1995). See also Roger Smith, Cambodia’s Foreign Policy (Ithaca, N.Y, 1965); and Charles Meyer’s hostile but enlightening Derriere le sourire khmer (Paris, 1971)—Meyer was an adviser to Sihanouk for fifteen years. Michael Field, The Prevailing Wind (London, 1967), is a more sympathetic account than Meyer’s. There are several interesting essays about this period in Ben Kiernan and Chanthou Boua, Peasants and Politics in Kampuchea, 1942—1982 (London, 1983).

Chapters 5—7 (1963—1977)

On the last years of Sihanouk’s regime, see Meyer, Derriere le sourire khmer; Milton Osborne, Before Kampuchea (London, 1979); and J.-C. Pomonti and Serge Thion, Des courtisaus aux partisaus (Paris, 1971), which also covers Sihanouk’s demise. Kiernan, HPP, has valuable insight into the fortunes of the Cambodian Communists in this period.

The most readable approach to the Lon Nol era is William Shawcross, Sideshow: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Destruction of Cambodia (New York, 1979), a scathing attack on U.S. policies. Sak Sutsakhan, The Khmer Republic at War and the Final Collapse (Washington, D.C., 1980), is a helpful military history. See also Justin Corfield, Khmer Stand Up! Politics in the Khmer Republic (Clayton, Australia, 1994); and Elizabeth Becker’s persuasive analysis extending into the Democratic Kampuchea period, When the War Was Over (New York, 1986).

The evacuation of Phnom Penh and events in the succeeding months are treated sympathetically in George Hildebrand and Gareth Porter, Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution (New York, 1976) and humanely in François Ponchaud’s pioneering account, Cambodia: Year Zero (New York, 1978). See also Becker, When the War Was Over; Bernard Hamel, Du sang et de larmes (Paris, 1977); and three memoirs, among many: Pin Yathay, L‘utopie meurtriere (Paris, 1980); Martin Stuart Fox and Ung Bunheang, The Murderous Revolution (Sydney, 1985); and Someth May, Cambodian Witness (London, 1986). For the broadcasts of Radio Phnom Penh, which were monitored overseas, see U.S. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), Daily Reports; and British Broadcasting Corporation, Summary of World Broadcasts (Far East).

Chapters 8—9 (1977—1998)