Sihanouk: Prince Of Light, Prince Of Darkness (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Few figures in modern history embody contradiction as completely as Norodom Sihanouk — a man who was at once a god-king and a political gambler, a filmmaker and a revolutionary, a symbol of Cambodian sovereignty and an architect of its near-destruction. Milton Osborne's Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness chronicles the extraordinary life of Cambodia's most mercurial leader, tracing his decades-long grip on power from his installation as a puppet monarch by the French in 1941 to his tortured alliances with the Khmer Rouge and his repeated exiles and returns to Phnom Penh. Osborne, one of the foremost Western authorities on Southeast Asian history, brings to this biography the analytical rigour and narrative authority of a scholar who has spent a lifetime in the region. His portrait of Sihanouk is neither hagiography nor condemnation, but a nuanced reckoning with a man whose vanity and political cunning shaped — and scarred — an entire nation. The result is an indispensable work for anyone seeking to understand the tragedy of modern Cambodia, leaving the reader to wonder whether Sihanouk was ultimately his country's saviour, or its curse.
Author: Milton Osborne
Format: Hardback
Published: 1994, Allen & Unwin
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Few figures in modern history embody contradiction as completely as Norodom Sihanouk — a man who was at once a god-king and a political gambler, a filmmaker and a revolutionary, a symbol of Cambodian sovereignty and an architect of its near-destruction. Milton Osborne's Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness chronicles the extraordinary life of Cambodia's most mercurial leader, tracing his decades-long grip on power from his installation as a puppet monarch by the French in 1941 to his tortured alliances with the Khmer Rouge and his repeated exiles and returns to Phnom Penh. Osborne, one of the foremost Western authorities on Southeast Asian history, brings to this biography the analytical rigour and narrative authority of a scholar who has spent a lifetime in the region. His portrait of Sihanouk is neither hagiography nor condemnation, but a nuanced reckoning with a man whose vanity and political cunning shaped — and scarred — an entire nation. The result is an indispensable work for anyone seeking to understand the tragedy of modern Cambodia, leaving the reader to wonder whether Sihanouk was ultimately his country's saviour, or its curse.