Pin Yathay, was an engineer at the Ministry of Public Works in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge stormed the Cambodian capital. Yathay’s gripping memoir, “Stay Alive, My Son” is one of the top ten books about the Communist takeover and the resulting atrocities known as the ‘Killing Fields.’ Yathay’s family suffered and died under the insane rule of rabid revolutionaries, but he eventually fled to Thailand.