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)
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Viking , 2015
Omfang
x, 290 sider, 16 unummererte plansjer : illustrasjoner, kart
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
Emner
Sjanger
Biografier (Form) : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01057. - Biografier : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01057
Geografisk emneord
Korea (North) - History . - Korea (North) - Politics and government . - Korea : (NO-TrBIB)HUME02127. - Nord-Korea : (NO-TrBIB)HUME02046
Dewey
ISBN
9780143108023

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