Title:
The great leader and the fighter pilot : a true story about the birth of tyranny in North Korea / Blaine Harden.
Author:
Harden, Blaine, author.
Publication Information:
New York, New York Penguin Books, 2016.
Call Number:
DS935.7552 .H27 2016
Abstract:
BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. Blaine Harden, "New York Times" bestselling author of"Escape From Camp 14," tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung s rise to power and the young North Korean fighter pilot who dared to defy him In the aftermath of World War II, Kim Il Sung plunged North Korea 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 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 $100,000 bounty for the warplane (the equivalent of nearly one million dollars today). The theft just weeks after the Korean War ended in July 1953 electrified the world and incited Kim s bloody vengeance.
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ISBN:
9780143108023
Physical Description:
ix, 290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I GUERRILLA AND RICH BOY -- ch. 1 Beginnings -- ch. 2 Poodle and Pretender -- ch. 3 Sweet-Talking Stalin -- pt. II WAR -- ch. 4 The Great Liberation Struggle -- ch. 5 Kicked in the Teeth -- ch. 6 MiGs -- ch. 7 Return to North Korea -- ch. 8 An International Sporting Event -- ch. 9 Attack Maps and Defection Bribes -- ch. 10 Uncle Yoo -- pt. III Flight -- ch. 11 Flying Clear -- ch. 12 Squeezing the Moolah -- ch. 13 Right Stuff and Fake Stuff -- ch. 14 Learning and Purging.
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