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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Harden, Blaine.     Subjects     Kim, Il-sŏng, 1912-1994.     No, Kum-Sok.     Dictators -- Korea (North) -- Biography.     Fighter pilots -- Korea (North) -- Biography.     Defectors -- Korea (North) -- Biography.     Theft -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century.     Escapes -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century.     Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Biography.     MIG-15 (Jet fighter plane) -- History.     Korea (North) -- History -- 1948-1994 -- Biography.     Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Harden, Blaine.       by title:      The great leader and...       by call number:      951.904248 H259g     Search the Web     Harden, Blaine.     Kim, Il-sŏng, 1912-1994.     No, Kum-Sok.     Dictators -- Korea (North) -- Biography.     Fighter pilots -- Korea (North) -- Biography.     Defectors -- Korea (North) -- Biography.     Theft -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century.     Escapes -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century.     Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Biography.     MIG-15 (Jet fighter plane) -- History.     Korea (North) -- History -- 1948-1994 -- Biography.     Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994.       MARC Display

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. by Harden, Blaine. Viking, 2015. Call #: 951.904248 H259g Subjects Kim, Il-sŏng, 1912-1994.   No, Kum-Sok.   Dictators -- Korea (North) -- Biography.   Fighter pilots -- Korea (North) -- Biography.   Defectors -- Korea (North) -- Biography.   Theft -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century.   Escapes -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century.   Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Biography.   MIG-15 (Jet fighter plane) -- History.   Korea (North) -- History -- 1948-1994 -- Biography.   Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994. ISBN:  9780670016570 (hc.) Description:  x, 290 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Summary:  "The murderous rise of North Korea's founding dictator and the fighter pilot who faked him out. 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 $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. During the Korean War the United States carpet bombed the North, giving the Kim dynasty the fact-based narrative it would use to this day to sell paranoia and hatred of Americans. Drawing on documents from Chinese and Russian archives about the role of Mao and Stalin in Kim's shadowy rise, Harden gives us a heart-pounding escape adventure and a new understanding of the world's longest-lasting totalitarian state"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 951.904248 H259g Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 951.904248 H259g Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.904248 H259g Adult books Shelving Cart Add Copy to MyList

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