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An irresistible account of some of history's most illustrious - and iniquitous - figures, from one of our best-loved historians.
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In 1971, 30-year-old ethnographer François Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge and kept prisoner for three months in the Cambodian jungle, accused of being ...
