No Front Line: Searching for Home in a War Zone (The Smell of Water) - Softcover

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The Sequel to The Smell of Water - a Twelve-year-old Soldier's Escape from the Khmer Rouge Army, and his Determination to Stay Alive.

January 15, 1979 - Cambodia, Southern Zone: Two comrades have managed to escape recapture and have walked across half of the South, trying to find whatever is left of their shattered families. Now, they must turn north. To try to get through to Phnom Penh, and then to Lang's village. They know what lies ahead of them. A wasteland of communes evacuated and stripped of food, market towns deserted four years ago, burned buildings, UXOs, mined roads and little water. But they don't know who lies ahead of them in this tormented landscape. If they run into Vietnamese minesweeping crews, will they leave them alone? If they run into the Vietnamese army, what will they do to them? There are still rogue cadres around, travelling in packs; if they find them, will they take them hostage against capture by the Vietnamese? But there's a fourth scenario. If they run into their own army, and they figure out they're deserters, they'll shoot them. Four enemies. And any one of them could be anywhere. Because, since the Vietnamese invasion, the whole country is a war zone. There's no front line.

A true story of survival. Lang Srey was the younger of the two boys. This book makes a truly meaningful gift for an adult, or for a teen.

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