The Khmers

* The best history of Cambodia and its people, from prehistoric origins to the present.
* The first and only account in English of the origins, culture and history of the Khmers - the people originally of inner Cambodia, latterly of the whole country.
* The fullest reconstruction in any language of the history, religion and daily life of the great Angkor Empire (which flourished c.800 - 1400 AD) and whose colossal and jungle-buried architectural achievements have been the subject of intense archaeological investigation over 150 years.
* A history of the country's long period of trouble and decadence culminating in Pol Pot's murderous regime in the late 1970s.
* Fully illustrated with maps and photographs.