… own eyes" Times Higher Education Supplement (London), 25 February 2005 Reviewed by Ben Kiernan Pol Pot: The History … , by Philip Short Publisher: John Murray, UK Price: £25.00 Now that Pol Pot is dead and his last comrades have … that 15 to 20 per cent of the peasantry perished, he terms 10 per cent “almost certainly an overestimate”. As he says, …