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The following lists events that happened during 1975 in Cambodia.
References
- ↑ Milton E. Osborne Phnom Penh: A Cultural and Literary History 2008 p170 The best - selling author of “ airport " novels suffused with sex and violence , Eric Van Lustbader , sets much of his 1987 novel Black Heart in Phnom Penh . As with Durand ' s novel , the rise to power of the Khmer Rouge is an element in the ...
- ↑ Jacques Bekaert Cambodian Diary: Tales of a divided nation, 1983-1986 1997 p.108 "Eric Van Lustbader's Black Heart is a lot more complex ...... The book is not really about Cambodia but at the end tells you maybe a bit more about the Khmer Rouge in the late 1960s and what kind of impact the “ Angkar " ( the organisation ) could have on someone "
- ↑ New York Times review BLOOD AND GUTS, EASTERN DIVISION By Jack Sullivan April 10, 1983
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