The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66
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The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66
By (Author) Geoffrey B. Robinson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
9th December 2019
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Genocide and ethnic cleansing
Social and cultural history
959.8035
Physical Properties
Paperback
456
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
The definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detention The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century-the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leavin
Reviews
"Winner of the George McT. Kahin Prize, Association for Asian Studies"
"Winner of the Distinguished Book Award in Non-U.S. History, Society for Military History"
"Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide"
"Longlisted for the 2019 ICAS Book Prize in Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars"
"One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: History"
"One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018"
Author Bio
Geoffrey B. Robinson is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include The Dark Side of Paradise and If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die (Princeton).
