A review by aggie2010
Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor

5.0

In his memoir Survival in the Killing Fields, Haing Ngor recounts his harrowing tale of survival under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. After his forced evacuation from Phnom Penh to the countryside, Ngor must conceal his identity as a doctor and work for the Khmer Rouge on various ill conceived projects aimed at revolutionizing Cambodia into an agricultural society. Throughout his four years under the cruel thumb of the Khmer Rouge, Ngor endures starvation, disease, imprisonment and torture, and witnesses the destruction of his entire family and way of life. Ngor's memoir is a poignant story of one man's struggle to survive and a chilling testament which exposes the ruthlessness of the Khmer Rouge regime. This is a story that truly shakes ones' faith in humanity. It shows with brutal detail the evil human beings are capable of. Ngor's memoir cut me to my core. It is a story that will forever haunt me.