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“The primary reason the Eastern Front has not yet been revealed as the decisive arena of the war,” the author continues, “has to do with politics—specifically the anti-Communist prejudice that pervades Western scholarship.”

In a time when contentious terminology pervades public discourse, the astute chronicling and monitoring of language is essential.

But the Telegraph Neil McCormick awarded four stars, noting: "The overwhelming emotional mood is relief. It pervades the songs, a self-soothing blanket of gratitude that she has been rescued from solitude."

Behind this though was another anxiety, one that pervades Cambodian history: that of being a smaller country surrounded by more powerful neighbours.

Day after day, they heard him on the radio and were indoctrinated into the hard-right culture war mentality that still pervades the Republican Party.