The reluctant communist : my desertion, court-martial, and forty-year imprisonment in North Korea /

In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old US 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 b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jenkins, Charles Robert, 1940-2017
Otros Autores: Frederick, Jim, 1971-2014
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Jenkins, Charles Robert, > 1940-2017.
Jenkins, Charles Robert, > 1940-2017
Jenkins, Charles Robert, > (1940- ...)
Military deserters > United States > Biography.
Americans > Korea (North) > Biography.
Defectors > Korea (North) > Biography.
Déserteurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Transfuges > Corée du Nord > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
HISTORY > Military > General.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Americans.
Defectors.
Manners and customs.
Military deserters.
Prisonniers politiques > Corée (République populaire démocratique)
Korea (North) > Social life and customs.
Korea (North)
United States.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old US 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxxvi, 192 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
ISBN:9780520934283
0520934288

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