The Cambodian Wars: Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations (Modern War Studies)
By Kenneth Conboy.
Description
For most Americans, Cambodia was a sideshow to the war in Vietnam, but by the time of the Vietnam invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 and the subsequent war, it had finally moved to center stage. Kenneth Conboy chronicles the violence that plagued Cambodia from World War II until the end of the twentieth century and peels back the layers of secrecy that surrounded the CIA's covert assistance to anticommunist forces in Cambodia during that span.Conboy's path-breaking study provides the first complete assessment of CIA ops in two key periods—during the Khmer Republic'...
ISBN(s)
0700619003, 9780700619009
