Killing fields. Christopher Hudson. 1984.

Cambodia 1973.

For Sydney Schanberg, local bureau chief of the New York Times, it’s the start of an involvement with war-torn Cambodia which will produce the greatest triumph and the greatest suffering of his career.

For Dith Pran, Schanberg’s loyal Cambodian assistant, it’s the beginning of a desperate struggle against the murderous Khmer Rouge. Alone, starving, he’s determined to escape the horrors of the “killing fields”.

Five years later he’s still in Cambodia. But Schanberg, now safely in America, cannot forget the man who once saved his life…….