The story of Dith Pran, the interpreter for N.Y. Times photo-journalist Sydney Schanberg. This gives first person insight into what went on during the final days of the Long Nol regime and the terror of the Khmer Rouge taking over. Far more into detail than the "Killing Fields" film. Excellent story.
Jon Swain was one of the reporters in Cambodia at the same time Schanberg was there. He knew both Schanberg and Dith Pran and tells a similar yet more personal tale of SE Asia from his perspective. His story also covers some of his time in South Vietnam.
Frank Snepp was a CIA operative who witnessed the downfall of the Saigon regime and the almost criminal inability of the U.S. government to assist in getting their Vietnamese workers out of Saigon. Snepp puts most of the blame squarely on the shoulders of the arrogant Ambassador Graham Martin. Reads more like a spy novel than anything else.
A five-year old girl's perspective of the fall of Phenom Penh and the forced evacuation of her family into the countryside. Very well written and hard to put down.
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