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The Great Leader and the Fighter PilotIntroduction of the ebook: 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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From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung’s rise to power, and the brave North Korean fighter pilot who escaped the prison state and delivered the first MiG-15 into American hands
In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story o From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung’s rise to power, and the brave North Korean fighter pilot who escaped the prison state and delivered the first MiG-15 into American hands
In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country 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 noisily 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 role 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 escape adventure and an entirely new way to understand the world’s longest-lasting totalitarian state. …more
Review ebook 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
I won this through Goodreads first-read in exchange for an honest review.
North Korea has been intriguing me for about 3 years now. So much so that I’ve created a “north-korea” folder because I’ve been reading so much about it. There are some interesting reads in that folder but none in which I learned as much as I did in this book.
It’s sorta like The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America in that it alternates between two stories. The first is the hi I won this through Goodreads first-read in exchange for an honest review.
North Korea has been intriguing me for about 3 years now. So much so that I’ve created a “north-korea” folder because I’ve been reading so much about it. There are some interesting reads in that folder but none in which I learned as much as I did in this book.
It’s sorta like The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America in that it alternates between two stories. The first is the history of how the North Korea we know today came into existence through the rise of Kim Il Sung. He was an incompetent fool yet amazingly was able to get everything he wanted and needed from China and the USSR. The curious turn of events make it seem it was almost his destiny to rise to power.
Simultaneously, we follow the life story of No Kum Sok. No (I know its confusing reading No as a name…I struggled with it too) was a North Korean trapped in his country who longed to go to America. In order to survive, he “played the communist game”, joining the air force, and biding his time until he could defect.
Both stories are amazing and unbelievable and kept me thoroughly engaged. Given what’s going in North Korea today, it is also a timely read. …more
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