Pol PotThe definitive portrait of Pol Pot, the enigmatic man behind the most terrifying regime of modern times. Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia descended into madness, and his name became a byword for oppression. In the three and a half years of his rule, more than a million people, a fifth of