Pol Pot regime: race, power and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge 1975-79. Ben Kiernan. 2008.

What was the nature of the regime that turned Cambodia into grisly killing fields and murdered or starved to death 1.7 million of the country’s eight million inhabitants? In this riveting book, the first definitive account of the Khmer Rouge revolution, a world-renowned authority on Cambodia shows how an ideological preoccupation with racist and totalitarian policies led a group of intellectuals to impose genocide on their own country.