The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory

Sheds crucial new light on the epochal U.S. interventions in Southeast Asia after WWII. Antiwar activist Fred Branfman describes the tragic lives of Laotian peasants under U.S. bombing. Cambodia scholar Ben Kiernan and colleague Owen Taylor illuminate the course of Cambodia history after unprecedented U.S. bombing. The book further includes classic work by Noam Chomsky, Nick Turse, and Edward Herman.