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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Loung Ung
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The stirring true story of a girl who survived the brutality of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia retraces her steps from the forced "evacuation" of Phnom Penh in 1975 when she was a girl of five, to her family's subsequent movements from town to town and eventual separation, which resulted in her parents' deaths and her being trained as a child soldier. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
Genres: NonfictionHistoryMemoirBiographyAsiaWarBiography MemoirAutobiographyHistoricalBook Club
238 Pages

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