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The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
The Reluctant Communist My Desertion CourtMartial and FortyYear Imprisonment in North Korea
Author: Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Frederick
In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Inste...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520253339
ISBN-10: 0520253337
Publication Date: 3/3/2008
Pages: 238
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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