Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia

This book is the story of America's secret war against Cambodia. It is the first full-scale investigation of how power was employed - and abused - in the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and the State Department under the leadership of Richard Nixon and his National Security Assistant, Henry Kissinger. It is a tragic history of the destruction of a neutral country which was always regarded by the White House and the State Department as "something of a sideshow to Vietnam." In this astonishing account of the waging of a secret and illicit war, William Shawcross draws upon his own experience in Southeast Asia, upon interviews with hundred of participants, and upon thousand of pages of classified US Government documents