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1) 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

Author

Harden, Blaine

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

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"From the bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14, the murderous rise of North Korea's founding dictator and the fighter pilot who faked him out 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...

2) Escape from Camp 14: one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West

Author

Harden, Blaine

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

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Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea.

3) Escape from Camp 14

Author

Harden, Blaine

Pub. Date

2012.

Edition

Large print edition.

Language

English

4) King of spies: the dark reign of America's spymaster in Korea

Author

Harden, Blaine

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

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In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was repairing jeeps on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three months' training, he was sent to Korea, then a backwater beneath the radar of MacArthur's Pacific Command. Though he lacked the pedigree of most U.S. spies--Nichols was a 7th grade dropout--he quickly metamorphosed from army mechanic to black ops phenomenon. He insinuated...

5) Murder at the mission: a frontier killing, its legacy of lies, and the taking of the American West

Author

Harden, Blaine

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

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The riveting and revealing story of one of the most persistent "alternative facts" in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West. In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where...