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The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom - Couverture souple

Harden, Blaine

 
9781447253372: The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom
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ISBN 10 : 144725337X ISBN 13 : 9781447253372
Editeur : Mantle, 2015

Synopsis

An ambitious and gripping exploration of the world's most secretive state through the intertwined lives of two north koreans, one infamous, one obscure: kim il sung, the former north korean leader and no kum sok, once the state's youngest jet fighter pilot. Shortly before the korean war ended, their paths crossed. Kim il sung congratulated no kum sok on his flying skill and courage, but just a few months later, no kum sok stole a soviet-made mig-15 and escaped to a us airfield in south korea. This non-fiction thriller digs deeply into the character of the kim family dictatorship. Both an irresistible adventure story and an authoritative guide to the notorious state, the great leader and the fighter pilot explains why north korea remains so isolated, why it created and maintains its concentration camps, and why it is still so angry at the western world. 'harden's book, besides being a gripping story, unsparingly told, carries a freight of intelligence about this black hole of a country' new york times on escape from camp 14

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À propos de l'auteur

Blaine Harden is a contributor to the Economist, based in Seattle, having completed a tour as the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Tokyo. He is the prize-winning, acclaimed author of two books: Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent and A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia.

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An ambitious and gripping exploration of the world's most secretive state through the intertwined lives of two north koreans, one infamous, one obscure: kim il sung, the former north korean leader and no kum sok, once the state's youngest jet fighter pilot. Shortly before the korean war ended, their paths crossed. Kim il sung congratulated no kum sok on his flying skill and courage, but just a few months later, no kum sok stole a soviet-made mig-15 and escaped to a us airfield in south korea. This non-fiction thriller digs deeply into the character of the kim family dictatorship. Both an irresistible adventure story and an authoritative guide to the notorious state, the great leader and the fighter pilot explains why north korea remains so isolated, why it created and maintains its concentration camps, and why it is still so angry at the western world. 'harden's book, besides being a gripping story, unsparingly told, carries a freight of intelligence about this black hole of a country' new york times on escape from camp 14

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An ambitious and gripping exploration of the world's most secretive state through the intertwined lives of two north koreans, one infamous, one obscure: kim il sung, the former north korean leader and no kum sok, once the state's youngest jet fighter pilot. Shortly before the korean war ended, their paths crossed. Kim il sung congratulated no kum sok on his flying skill and courage, but just a few months later, no kum sok stole a soviet-made mig-15 and escaped to a us airfield in south korea. This non-fiction thriller digs deeply into the character of the kim family dictatorship. Both an irresistible adventure story and an authoritative guide to the notorious state, the great leader and the fighter pilot explains why north korea remains so isolated, why it created and maintains its concentration camps, and why it is still so angry at the western world. 'harden's book, besides being a gripping story, unsparingly told, carries a freight of intelligence about this black hole of a country' new york times on escape from camp 14

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Éditeur
Mantle
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
144725337X
ISBN 13 
9781447253372
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Koch-Chemie GmbH
https://www.koch-chemie.com

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