Synopsis
French photographer Roland Neveu was one of the few photojournalists in Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. His iconic images have become a marker of a day greeted with joy by the warweary inhabitants of the Cambodian capital, yet whose consequences would cost many of them their lives over the next four years. Neveu's classic book, updated and with a fully revised text, contains more than 100 images - some reproduced here for the first time - of the events leading up to the fall of Phnom Penh, one of the 20th century's seminal moments.... -.-.-.-. "For anyone familiar with Cambodia's horrific past or indeed anyone who survived the years of darkness at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, the 17th of April 1975 was the day when the nightmare started," says Neveu. "It marked in the people's minds the date when the country began its descent into hell." "We now know that these images represent the end of Cambodia - as it had been - for the population and the start of something much darker, much more destructive, than almost anything that had come before in history," he says. "Forty years on, what stands out for me is that this was truly a pivotal moment in history." .-.-.-. 216pp.; 9,000+ words text; 116 original photos B&W and colour; two colour maps
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