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Reluctant Communist : My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Jim Frederick and Charles Robert Jenkins (2008, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520259998

ISBN-139780520259997

eBay Product ID (ePID)71130801

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Book TitleReluctant Communist : My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

Number of Pages232 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory & Theory, Asia / General, Customs & Traditions, United States / General

Publication Year2008

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History

AuthorJim Frederick, Charles Robert Jenkins

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length0.8 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2007-033315

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"One of the most important and devastating accounts of life inside a totalitarian society."-- Commentary, "One of the most important and devastating accounts of life inside a totalitarian society."--Commentary

Dewey Decimal355.1/334 B

Table Of ContentForeword Acknowledgments Prelude 1. Super Jenkins 2. In the Army, and across the DMZ 3. Housemates 4. Cooks, Cadets, and Wives 5. Soga-san 6. Friends and Strangers 7. Domestic Life 8. Hitomi's Escape 9. My Escape 10. Homecomings

SynopsisIn 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.