Cover art for The Killing Season
Published
Princeton University Press, January 2018
ISBN
9780691161389
Format
Hardcover, 456 pages
Dimensions
23.5cm × 15.2cm

The Killing Season A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 by

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The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century--the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention. An expert in modern Indonesian history,

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