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  • The Invitation-Only Zone

    The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

    A bizarre, little-known tale about the most secretive culture on earthFor decades, North Korea denied any part in the disappearance of dozens of Japanese citizens from Japan’s coastal towns and cities in the late 1970s. But in 2002, with his country on the brink of collapse, Kim Jong-il admitted to the kidnapping of thirteen people and returned five of them in hopes of receiving Japanese aid. As ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Prisoner

    A Memoir

    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell, Anton Hur ...
    A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelistIn 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Frozen Chosin: U.S. Marines At The Changjin Reservoir [Illustrated Edition]

    Series Book 7 - Marines In The Korean War Commemorative Series
    Includes more than 40 maps, plans and illustrations.This volume in the official History of the Marine Corps chronicles the part played by United States Marines in the Chosin Reservoir Campaign.The race to the Yalu was on. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s strategic triumph at Inchon and the subsequent breakout of the U.S. Eighth Army from the Pusan Perimeter and the recapture of Seoul had ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Without You, There Is No Us

    Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite

    by Suki Kim ...
    A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reignEvery day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Impossible State

    North Korea, Past and Future

    by Victor Cha ...
    In The Impossible State, seasoned international-policy expert and lauded scholar Victor Cha pulls back the curtain on provocative, isolationist North Korea, providing our best look yet at its history and the rise of the Kim family dynasty and the obsessive personality cult that empowers them. Cha illuminates the repressive regime’s complex economy and culture, its appalling record of human rights ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Kim Jong-Il Production

    The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

    by Paul Fischer ...
    Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi)—South Korea's most famous actress—and her ex-husband Shin ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Korean War in Asia

    A Hidden History

    Edited by Tessa Morris-Suzuki ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This book takes a fresh look at the Korean War by considering the conflict from a Northeast Asian regional perspective. It highlights the connections of the war to earlier conflicts in the region and examines the human impact of the war on neighboring countries, focusing particularly on the ways in which the Korean War shaped regional cross-border movements of people, goods, and ideas (including ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • BEYOND COURAGE: Escape Tales Of Airmen In The Korean War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Clay Blair ...
    Includes ten illustrations and one map.Clay Blair, Jr., close to Air Force headquarters during the Korean war, heard, as did everyone there, fascinating stories of Air Force pilots who had crashed or been shot down behind enemy lines and then managed, by one means or another, often enduring incredible hardships, to make their way back to U.N. lines. However, at the time, these stories were highly ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Successor

    The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

    by Anna Fifield ...
    The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.Since his birth in 1984, Kim Jong Un has been swaddled in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly -- he could supposedly drive a car at the age of three -- to the grimly bloody ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Rogue Regime

    Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea

    by Jasper Becker ...
    What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? In a nightmare of political theory stretched to madness and come to life, North Korea's Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two million of his subjects starved to death, Kim Jong Il roamed between palaces staffed by beautiful girls and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Escape from Camp 14

    One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

    by Blaine Harden ...
    **With a New ForewordThe heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped.**North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Dong ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In Order to Live

    A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

    **“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” - Yeonmi Park"One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller“Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension. Park's important memoir showcases the strength of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • In Mortal Combat

    Korea, 1950–1953

    by John Toland ...
    A history of the Korean War with soldier’s-eye views from both sides, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Rising Sun and Infamy.Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Toland reports on the Korean War in a revolutionary way in this thoroughly researched and riveting book. Toland pored over military archives and was the first person to gain access to previously undisclosed Chinese records, which ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Thousand Miles to Freedom

    My Escape from North Korea

    Translated by David Tian ...
    Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated.By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950–1951

    by I. F. Stone ...
    Series series Forbidden Bookshelf
    “A great journalist” raises troubling questions about the forgotten war in this courageous, controversial book—with a new introduction by Bruce Cumings (The Baltimore Sun).“Much about the Korean War is still hidden, and much will long remain hidden. I believe I have succeeded in throwing new light on its origins.” —From the author’s prefaceIn 1945 US troops arrived in Korea for what would become ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea

    A major historical account of the Korean War, its origins, and its evolving impact on the world.Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents the first comprehensive history of this misunderstood war, one that risks involving the world’s superpowers—again. Her sweeping narrative ranges from the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Reckless

    Pride of the Marines

    by Andrew Geer ...
    Reckless was a horse who became a member of the Marines during the Korean War. She carried ammunition and was cited for her bravery under fire. Beloved by the Marines, she was decorated and promoted to sergeant. At the end of the war the Marines had her shipped to the U.S. for retirement. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Birth of Korean Cool

    How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture

    by Euny Hong ...
    A FRESH, FUNNY, UP-CLOSE LOOK AT HOW SOUTH KOREA REMADE ITSELF AS THE WORLD'S POP CULTURE POWERHOUSE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYBy now, everyone in the world knows the song "Gangnam Style" and Psy, an instantly recognizable star. But the song's international popularity is no passing fad. "Gangnam Style" is only one tool in South Korea's extraordinarily elaborate and effective strategy to become a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Aquariums of Pyongyang

    Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

    "Destined to become a classic" (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea was the first account to emerge from the notoriously secretive country -- and it remains one of the most terrifying.Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader

    North Korea and the Kim Dynasty

    Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Lifting North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book will take readers inside a society, that to a Westerner, will appear to be from another planet. Subsisting on a diet short on food grains and long on lies, North Koreans ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Korea

    A Walk Through the Land of Miracles

    In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea - from its southern tip to the North Korean border - in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive land.Fascinating for its vivid presentation of historical and geographic detail, Korea is that rare book that actually defines a nation and its people. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Act of War

    Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo

    by Jack Cheevers ...
    **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE“I devoured Act of War the way I did Flyboys, Flags of Our Fathers and Lost in Shangri-la.”—Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author**In 1968, the small, dilapidated American spy ship USS Pueblo set out to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Though packed with advanced electronic-surveillance ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated)

    by Bruce Cumings ...
    "Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book ReviewKorea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War, and divided and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Korean War: History in an Hour

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Bringing together the military mights of the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United Nations States, the Korean War raged for three years from 1950 to 1953. Not only the result of a carving of Korean territories following the Pacific conflicts of the Second World War, it was also a battle of ideologies ... Read more

    $7.99 USD