Books by Robinson, Geoffrey

Geoffrey B. Robinson, The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 .  Hardcore excellent across both the factual and conceptual dimensions.  It is striking that as of 1965 Indonesia had the world’s largest non-governing communist party, until this episode that is.  At least half a million people were killed and “…the vast majority were felled with knives, sickles, machetes, swords, ice picks, bamboo spears, iron rods, and other everyday implements.”  Not so much high tech, ...