Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot Book

	List of Illustrations
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	"Original Khmer," 1928-1949	7
	Who Was Pol Pot?	7
	Palace Connections	8
	Phnom Penh in the 1930s	9
	The Weight of the Past	12
	The Stirrings of Nationalism	15
	Moving to Kompong Cham	17
	Back in Phnom Penh	21
	Working for the Democrats	22
3	Becoming a Communist, 1949-1953	25
	The First Year in Paris	25
	Political Developments in Cambodia, 1950-1951	29
	Turning to the Left	31
	Becoming a Communist	37
4	Multiple Identities, 1953-1963	41
	Joining the Viet Minh	41
	Geneva and the 1955 Elections	43
	Becoming a Teacher	49
	A Militant for the Party	53
	Focusing the Party	55
	A Cambodian Party Takes Shape	59
	The Death of Tou Samouth	60
	Talking to Monks and Students	61
5	"Red Khmer," 1963-1970	65
	A Hostage of the Vietnamese	67
	The Visit to Vietnam	69
	The Visit to China	71
	A Change in Tactics	73
	The Samlaut Uprising	77
	Armed Struggle, 1968-1970	80
	Sihanouk Loses His Grip	82
	Saloth Sar Travels North	83
6	Coming to Power, 1970-1976	87
	Saloth Sar Comes Home	88
	The National Democratic Revolution	91
	From Cease-Fire to Bombardment	94
	The Only Game in Town	95
	Sihanouk Visits Saloth Sar	97
	Preparing the Final Assault	99
	The Final Assault	102
	Saloth Sar Returns to Phnom Penh	104
	Inventing Democratic Kampuchea	107
	The Emergence of Pol Pot	110
7	Prairie Fire, 1976-1977	113
	The Four Year Plan	114
	The Crisis of September-October 1976	122
	Purges in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975-1977	123
	Purging Friends	127
	Pol Pot and the "Microbes"	129
	Punishing the Intelligentsia	130
	Personal Details	132
	War with Vietnam	133
	Coming into the Open	135
8	Coming Apart, 1977-1979	137
	Pol Pot in China and North Korea	137
	Cambodia's War with Vietnam	138
	The War Begins	142
	Opening Up	144
	Attacking Enemies	146
	A Cult of Personality?	148
	Pol Pot on Display	153
9	"Grandfather 87," 1979-1998	157
	The Discovery of Democratic Kampuchea's History	159
	Concealing Democratic Kampuchea	161
	Repentant Optimist, 1979-1981	162
	Dropping Out of Sight, 1981-1986	164
	Summing Up for the Defense	165
	Solving the Cambodian "Problem," 1986-1991	170
	The UNTAC Period	173
	"Grandfather 87,"	174
	The Implosion of the Red Khmer, 1994-1998	178
	Chronology	189
App. 1	Non Suon's Biography of Pol Pot	197
App. 2	Khmer Personnel at "Office 100," 1963-1966	201
	Notes	203
	Bibliographic Essay	243
	Index	249