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Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
ISBN
9780143108023

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143108026
ISBN-13
9780143108023
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219137956

Product Key Features

Book Title
Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot : a True Story about the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Military / Korean War, History & Theory, Presidents & Heads of State, Asia / Korea, Criminology, Military
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Blaine Harden
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10 oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.4 in

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Blaine Harden, "New York Times" bestselling author of"Escape From Camp 14," tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung s rise to power and the young North Korean fighter pilot who dared to defy him In the aftermath of World War II, Kim Il Sung plunged North Korea into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception and escape. As Kim ascended from Soviet puppet to godlike ruler, No Kum Sok pretended to love his Great Leader. That is, until he swiped a Soviet MiG-15 and delivered it to the Americans, not knowing they were offering a $100,000 bounty for the warplane (the equivalent of nearly one million dollars today). The theft just weeks after the Korean War ended in July 1953 electrified the world and incited Kim s bloody vengeance. During the Korean War the United States brutally carpet bombed the North, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and giving the Kim dynasty, as Harden reveals, the fact-based narrative it would use to this day to sell paranoia and hatred of Americans. Drawing on documents from Chinese and Russian archives about the roles of Mao and Stalin in Kim s shadowy rise, as well as from never-before-released U.S. intelligence and interrogation files, Harden gives us a heart-pounding adventure and an entirely new way to understand the world s longest-lasting totalitarian state.", Blaine Harden, New York Times -bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 , tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to power and the young North Korean fighter pilot who dared to defy him. In the aftermath of World War II, Kim Il Sung plunged North Korea into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception--and escape. As Kim ascended from Soviet puppet to godlike ruler, No Kum Sok pretended to love his Great Leader. That is, until he swiped a Soviet MiG-15 and delivered it to the Americans, not knowing they were offering a $100,000 bounty for the warplane (the equivalent of nearly one million dollars today). The theft--just weeks after the Korean War ended in July 1953--electrified the world and incited Kim's bloody vengeance. During the Korean War the United States brutally carpet bombed the North, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and giving the Kim dynasty, as Harden reveals, the fact-based narrative it would use to this day to sell paranoia and hatred of Americans. Drawing on documents from Chinese and Russian archives about the roles of Mao and Stalin in Kim's shadowy rise, as well as from never-before-released U.S. intelligence and interrogation files, Harden gives us a heart-pounding adventure and an entirely new way to understand the world's longest-lasting totalitarian state.

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