"Philip Short" is a British journalist and author.

He was born in Bristol on 17 April 1945. He studied at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduation, he spent from 1967 to 1973 as a freelance journalist, first in Malawi, then in Uganda. He then joined the BBC as a foreign correspondent. He worked there for 25 years. He is the author of several books, among them the biographies of Mao Zedong, Mao: A Life, Pol Pot, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare, and François Mitterrand, A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand.

He presented a TV documentary on Mao Zedong entitled "Mao's Bloody Revolution Revealed" on the UK terrestrial station Five (channel)/Five in May 2007.

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In three years and eight months beginning on April 17, 1975, between 1 and 2 million Cambodians died, as much as a quarter of the entire population. This is the story of a holocaust.

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Like a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, Pol Pot viewed policy in terms of a fight to the death. The alternative was to be devoured.

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King Sihanouk was an absolute monarch in the 1940s and 1950s. No one could publicly disagree with anything the king said. In the throne room, even ministers had to approach the king on their hands and knees because everyone's head had to be below the level of the king's feet.

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