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
Blaine Harden.
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Biografier (Form)
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Utgitt | Viking , 2015
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Omfang | x, 290 sider, 16 unummererte plansjer : illustrasjoner, kart
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Opplysninger | Heftet utgave, Penguin 2016, med undertittel: "A true story about the birth of tyranny in North Korea". - Introduction: Players and Game -- Part I: Guerrilla and Rich Boy -- Beginnings -- Poodle and Pretender -- Sweet-Talking Stalin -- Part II: War -- Great Liberation Struggle -- Kicked in the Teeth -- MiGs -- Return to North Korea -- An International Sporting Event -- Attack Maps and Defection Bribes -- Uncle Yoo -- Part III: Flight -- Flying Clear -- Squeezing the Moolah -- Right Stuff and Fake Stuff -- Learning and Purging -- Epilogue -- Time Line.. - "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
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Emner | Kim, Il Sung , 1912-1994 : (NO-TrBIB)90058602
No, Kŭmsŏk , 1932- : (NO-TrBIB)1542227318498 Defectors - Korea (North) Dictators - Korea (North) Vis mer... |
Sjanger | Biografier (Form) : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01057. - Biografier : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01057
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Geografisk emneord | Korea (North) - History . - Korea (North) - Politics and government . - Korea : (NO-TrBIB)HUME02127. - Nord-Korea : (NO-TrBIB)HUME02046
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ISBN | 9780143108023
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