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If Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »

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The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

by Charles Rob Jenkins

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ISBN13: 9780520253339
ISBN10: 0520253337
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In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where for forty years he suffered under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes the world has known. This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick), takes the reader behind the North Korean curtain and reveals the inner workings of its isolated society while offering a powerful testament to the human spirit.
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ISBN:
9780520253339
Subtitle:
My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
Author:
Jenkins, Charles Rob
With:
Frederick, Jim
Author:
Jenkins, Charles Robert
Author:
Frederick, Jim
Publisher:
University of California Press
Subject:
Americans
Subject:
Korean war, 1950-1953
Subject:
General
Subject:
Asia - Japan
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Asia - Korea
Subject:
Defectors.
Subject:
Jenkins, Charles Robert
Subject:
Military deserters -- United States.
Copyright:
2008
Publication Date:
November 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
8.46x6.06x.78 in. .84 lbs.
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