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Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare R.G. Menzies in one of the moreAuthor: Philip Short Condition: Acceptable Paperback 539 pages Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia descended into madness and his name became a byword for oppression. In the three and a half years of his rule, more than a million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were executed or