The Cambodian Wars by Kenneth Conboy HARDBACK 9780700619009

The Cambodian WarsClashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations\nAuthor(s): Kenneth Conboy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Kansas, United States\nImprint: University Press of Kansas\nISBN-13: 9780700619009, 978-0700619009\nSynopsis\nFor most Americans, Cambodia was a sideshow to the war in Vietnam, but by the time of the Vietnam invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 and the subsequent war, it had finally moved to centre stage. Kenneth Conboy chronicles the violence that plagued Cambodia from World War II until the end of the twentieth century and peels back the layers of secrecy that surrounded the CIAs covert assistance to anticommunist forces in Cambodia during that span.\n\nConboys path-breaking study provides the first complete assessment of CIA ops in two key periodsduring the Khmer Republics existence [tel], in support of American military action in Vietnam, and during the Reagan and first Bush presidencies [tel], when the CIA challenged Soviet expansion by sup.