Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The great leader and the fighter pilot

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1676709

Responsibility statement

Blaine Harden

Sub title

the true story of the tyrant who created North Korea and the young lieutenant who stole his way to freedom

Summary

"Drawing on documents from Chinese and Russian archives about the role of Mao and Stalin in Kim's shadowy rise, as well as never-before-released U.S. intelligence and interrogration files, Harden gives us a heart-pounding adventure and an entirely new way to understand the world's longest-lasting totalitarian state"--Provided by the publisher

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

adult

Classification