First They Killed My Father By Loung Ung

Autobiography, Biography, Historical, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics

Feb 11, 2024

First They Killed My Father By Loung Ung free pdf book download from here. Loung Ung, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime and now a Cambodian-American author, shares her heart-wrenching experiences in her memoir, “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”. Published in 2000, the book is a personal chronicle of her life during one of the deadliest genocides in human history.

In April 1975, when Ung was just five years old, the Khmer Rouge army, under the command of Pol Pot, overran Phnom Penh. Being the child of a high-ranking government official, she had led a life of privilege until then. However, the political upheaval forced her family to leave their home, hide their true identities, and forsake their privileged lifestyle.