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“helie lee”

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  • In the Absence of Sun

    A Korean American Woman's Promise to Reunite Three Lost Generations of Her Family

    by Helie Lee ...
    A breathtaking true story of a rescue mission undertaken by a young woman and her family in one of the most repressive countries in the world.Helie Lee often had heard her grandmother speak of an uncle, lost decades ago when he was a child during the family’s daring escape from North Korea. As an adult, he was still living there under horrid conditions. When her grandmother began to ail, Helie ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot

    A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

    by Blaine Harden ...
    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 handsIn The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea

    The Unending Conflict in Korea

    by Sheila Miyoshi Jager ...
    A major historical account of the Korean War, its origins, and its evolving impact on the world.Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents the first comprehensive history of this misunderstood war, one that risks involving the world’s superpowers—again. Her sweeping narrative ranges from the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Samurai Invasion of Korea 1592–98

    by Dr Stephen Turnbull ...
    Series Book 198 - Campaign
    ?Stephen Turnbull, a renowned expert on the history of Japan, examines the samurai invasion of Korea, the first step in an ambitious Japanese plan to conquer China. Examining the various stages of the war, from the pitched battles of the early war years, to the great naval encounters, the dramatic sieges and the bitter trench warfare that characterized the end of the war, Turnbull provides a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Act of War

    Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo

    by Jack Cheevers ...
    **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE“I devoured Act of War the way I did Flyboys, Flags of Our Fathers and Lost in Shangri-la.”—Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author**In 1968, the small, dilapidated American spy ship USS Pueblo set out to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Though packed with advanced electronic-surveillance ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Exit Emperor Kim Jong-Il

    Notes from His Former Mentor

    by John H. Cha ...
    In Exit Emperor Kim Jong-il, authors John H. Cha and K. J. Sohn present a compelling portrait of two men caught up in a struggle for the survival of North Korean society. Th e product of an eight-year study of individuals who observed and worked under Kim Jong-il, the dictator of North Korea for over thirty years, this biography provides insight into the Kims family corruption of power.The story ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Korean Folk Tales Part 2 (Illustrated)

    by Im Bang, Yi Ryuk, James S. Gale ...
    Series Book 2 - Korean Folk Tales (Illustrated)
    To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which he lives, the following stories will serve as true interpreters, born as they are of the three great religions of the Far East, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.An old manuscript copy of Im Bang's stories came into the hands of the translator, and he gives them now ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • Aim High in Creation!

    A One-of-a-Kind Journey inside North Korea's Propaganda Machine

    by Anna Broinowski ...
    An Authentic Glimpse of a North Korea We’ve Never Seen Before, by a Prize-Winning FilmmakerAnna Broinowski is the only Westerner ever granted full access to North Korea’s propaganda machine, its film industry. Aim High in Creation! is her funny, surreal, insightful account of her twenty-one-day apprenticeship there. At the same time it is a fresh-eyed look, beyond stereotypes, at life in that most ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Song of Ariran

    The Life Story of a Korean Rebel

    by Kim San, Nym Wales ...
    Here for the first time is a personal account direct from a leader of the Korean rebels fighting against the Japanese who have ruled them for a generation. It is a story that fits the American tradition and the American wish to understand and support all peoples who have fought against their tyrants and oppressors. Perhaps not many know that Christianity was the mother of Korean Independence, that ... Read more

    $10.57 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • East Asia Beyond the History Wars

    Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

    by Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov, Timothy Y. Tsu ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Korea A History

    by Bong-youn Choy ...
    This detailed, scholarly history of Korea is a comprehensive political and socioeconomic history from 57 B.C. to modern times, including North and South Korea.Specializing in Korean industrial structure, economic planning, and administration, the author presents a concise yet readable historical approach to a greater understanding of Korea's position in East Asia. The author, a political scholar ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 1

    South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century

    by George Katsiaficas ...
    Using social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of 20th-century Korea, this book provides detailed analysis of major uprisings that have patterned that country’s politics and society. From the 1894 Tonghak Uprising through the March 1, 1919, independence movement and anti-Japanese resistance, a direct line is traced to the popular opposition to U.S. division of Korea after ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus