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Pol Pot solved the leprosy problem : remembering colonial and post-colonial worlds, 1956-1981 / Milton Osborne.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781925501803
Author	Osborne, Milton E. (author.)
Title	Pol Pot solved the leprosy problem : remembering colonial and post-colonial worlds, 1956-1981 / Milton Osborne.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	Redland Bay, Qld : Connor Court, 2018.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	©2018.
Description	290 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Note	Title from cover.
Summary	"Covering more than twenty tumultuous years from 1956 to 1981 Milton Osborne’s book ranges in geographical scope from Papua New Guinea to France. But most of all it focuses on Cambodia and Vietnam, where he worked as a young diplomat, in 1959-61, before returning as a graduate student and academic. Later he was a consultant to UNHCR and the ‘Cambodian Refugee Problem’, working along the Thai-Cambodian border. It is a book where mordant humour is present but tragedy is all too often the dominating theme of life under Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia’s mercurial leader, and then Pol Pot’s tyranny. His experiences in Vietnam offer a counterpoint to conventional accounts of that conflict, when he was a privileged observer of a war that seemed without end. "--Back cover.
Subjects	Osborne, Milton E.
	Khmer Rouge
	Diplomats -- Australia -- Biography
	Vietnam War, 1961-1975
	Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
	Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
	Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 20th century
	Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 20th century
	Southeast Asia -- History -- 20th century
Call number	2018.401

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Barcode	Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Status	Due Date
A00886546	2018.401	General Collection		. Available to Museum Staff .