No Front Line: Searching for Home in a War Zone

ISBN-13: 9780692867419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 186 str.

Cornelia Bagg Srey; Lang Srey

Opis

January, 1979 - Cambodia: Drafted into the Khmer Rouge war machine at 12 and 14, my comrade and I have escaped from our infantry unit. We've walked across half of the South, trying to find whatever is left of our shattered families. Now, we must turn north. To try to get through to Phnom Penh, and then to my ancestral village. We know what lies ahead of us. A wasteland of communes evacuated and stripped of food, market towns deserted four years ago, burned buildings, UXOs, mined roads and little water. But we don't know WHO lies ahead of us in this tormented landscape. If we run into Vietnamese minesweeping crews, will they leave us alone? If we run into the Vietnamese army, what will they do to us? There are still rogue cadres around, travelling in packs; if they find us, will they take us hostage against capture by the Vietnamese? But there's a fourth scenario. If we run into our own army, and they figure out we're deserters, they'll shoot us. Four enemies. And any one of them could be anywhere. Because now, the whole country is a war zone. There's no front line. A true story of survival.