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  • Nothing to Envy: Real Lives In North Korea

    Real Lives In North Korea

    by Barbara Demick ...
    North Korea is Orwell"s 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity. After the death of the country"s great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended, and Nothing to Envy - winner of the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non ... Read more

    R221,02

  • The Korean War

    by Max Hastings ...
    The Korean War is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings’ compelling account of the forgotten war.'The best narrative history of the Korean conflict' – GuardianOn 25 June 1950 the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of the Chinese-backed North was thrown against the ferocious firepower ... Read more

    R338,89

  • Without You, There Is No Us

    My secret life teaching the sons of North Korea’s elite

    by Suki Kim ...
    It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them to write, all under the watchful eye of the regime.Life at the university ... Read more

    R313,13

  • History of Korea

    A Captivating Guide to Korean History, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasions, the Split into North and South, and the Korean War

    by Captivating History ...
    If you want to discover the captivating history of Korea, then keep reading...The Korean Peninsula today is divided into two, but there was a time when this peninsula was divided into many states. Over the course of time, and besieged by expansive transient dynasties outside of this modest piece of land, many clans and tribes overran their lands. Of all those malicious and greedy potential ... Read more

    R59,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Broken Blades

    Discover the Sunday Times bestselling adventure fantasy filled with assassins, betrayal and magic

    by Mai Corland ...
    Series Book 1 - The Broken Blades
    FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF VERITY GUILDFive ruthless killers. Five deadly motives. One King - who must die. Six of Crows meets Kill Bill in a feast of treason and seduction set against a dazzling fantasy backdrop inspired by Korean myth and legend'This dazzling fantasy has it all: a richly developed world, a captivating ensemble cast, and a twisty, action-packed quest' KAREN ... Read more

    R108,32

  • The Coldest Winter

    by David Halberstam ...
    Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest Winter changes that, giving readers a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu, and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly ... Read more

    R190,54

  • The Korean War: History in an Hour

    by Andrew Mulholland ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Bringing together the military mights of the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United Nations States, the Korean War raged for three years from 1950 to 1953. Not only the result of a carving of Korean territories following the Pacific conflicts of the Second World War, it was also a battle of ideologies ... Read more

    R52,08 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Impeaching the Impeachment

    Justice for President Park Geun-Hye

    by Peter Pyungwoo Kim ...
    Park Geun-hye was truly a political phenomenon. She was elected democratically, twice chosen as the leader of her party, and served in the South Korean legislature for over fourteen years. Her countrymen dubbed her the “Queen of Elections” for her successful leadership in winning her own elections and steering her party to great electoral victories. Yet in 2016–2017, she was impeached and ... Read more

    R63,12

  • The Border - A Journey Around Russia

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

    by Erika Fatland ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most exciting new travel writers" National Geographic**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**"A hauntingly ... Read more

    R294,85

  • A Thousand Miles to Freedom

    My Escape from North Korea

    by Eunsun Kim, Sébastien Falletti ...
    Translated by David Tian ...
    Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated.By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and ... Read more

    R161,33

  • MiG Alley

    The US Air Force in Korea, 1950–53

    by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver ...
    Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force fighter pilots flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist adversaries, among other such fabrications, went unchallenged until the end ... Read more

    R260,92

  • Korean Dynasty

    Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung

    by Donald Kirk ...
    This study focuses on a single Korean "chaebol", the business conglomerate which dominates the Korean economy. Hyundai, the largest chaebol, is examined in the context of Korean history, ancient and modern, and the Confucian value system that permeates all Korean life. ... Read more

    R1 645,21

  • The Korean War in World History

    Edited by William Stueck ...
    The Korean War in World History features the accomplishments of noted scholars over the last decade and lays the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship. These essays present the latest thinking on the Korean War, focusing on the relationship of one country to the war. William Stueck's introduction and conclusion link each essay to the rich historiography of the event and suggest the war ... Read more

    R543,48

  • Korean Unification

    by Jacques L. Fuqua, Jr. ...
    Since the conclusion of World War II, the Korean people and the international community have contemplated a unified peninsula, but a divided Korea remains one of the last visible vestiges of the Cold War. What will removing this specter entail? And with what should it be replaced?Similar to the unification of East and West Germany, merging North and South Korea is likely the only means of ... Read more

    R547,05

  • Laughing North Koreans

    The Culture of Comedy Films

    by Immanuel Kim ...
    This study analyzes North Korean comedy films from the late 1960s to present day. It examines the most iconic comedy films and comedians to show how North Koreans have enjoyed themselves and have established a culture of humor that challenges, subverts, and, at times, reinforces the dominant political ideology. The author argues that comedy films, popular comedians, and the viewers have an ... Read more

    R497,48

  • Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea

    Specters of Western Metaphysics

    by Hannah Amaris Roh ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    One of the first philosophical approaches to the study of Korea’s ethnic nationalism, Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea traces the impact of Christianity in the formation of Korean national identity, outlining the metaphysical origins of the concept of the sovereign subject.This monograph takes a meta-historical approach and engages the moral questions ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • Coalition Navies during the Korean War

    Understanding Combined Naval Operations

    Edited by Ian Bowers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book presents a detailed assessment of the role of navies in the Korean War. It highlights that, despite being predominantly a land war, navies played a vital part. Moreover, the naval war was not solely a U.S. operation. Smaller navies from many countries made important contributions both in supporting the United States and carrying out independent and combined naval operations. This subject ... Read more

    R1 146,59

  • Sovereignty Experiments

    Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945

    by Alyssa M. Park ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park argues that Korean migrants were essential to the ... Read more

    R660,55

  • She Is Mine

    A War Orphans' Incredible Journey of Survival

    by Stephanie Fast ...
    Her father was an American serviceman, her mother a young Korean woman confused by the ravages of war. Abandoned at age four, nameless, homeless, and utterly alone, this child roamed the bleak, war-ravaged countryside of South Korea for three years and was finally left for dead. But The Creator had other plans and revealed them through the words, "She Is Mine." ... Read more

    R146,04 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Korean War (1950-1953): A war between North Korea (with Chinese and Soviet support) and South Korea (with UN and US support)

    by Daniel Patel ...
    Explore the gripping accounts of soldiers and civilians amidst the raging geopolitical storm between North and South Korea, backed by superpowers China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Nations. Discover the legacy and relevance of this war that continues to shape today's world. From stunning military strategies to heart-wrenching humanitarian crises, this book unveils the ... Read more

    R21,74 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Masks That Cannot Die

    by Jack Han ...
    Seoul, 1946. Liberation has come, but the wounds remain. In the ruins of a teahouse near Jongno, a troupe of talchum performers gathers around a sacred mask—cracked during a Japanese police raid, half-burned, blackened with soot. For years, they survived by burying their art, whispering forbidden songs, and dancing in secret. Now, in the uncertain days after occupation, they must decide: is it ... Read more

    R120,97

  • Forgotten Heroes

    An American Soldier's Journey from Korea Through the Cold War

    by Edward Lee Smith ...
    When author Edward Lee Smith set out to write about his life as an African American soldier and teacher in America during the tumultuous twentieth century, he had a very personal mission in mind. He needed to confront his demons. Smith and his twin brother, Fred, encountered some of the bloodiest combat in the Korean War as ri emen with the Seventh Infantry Division of the US Army.In Forgotten ... Read more

    R65,65

  • Soviet-North Korean Relations During the Cold War

    Unruly Offspring

    by Fyodor Tertitskiy ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Korea
    This book explores Soviet–North Korean relations during the Cold War (1945–1991).Based on many primary documents and sources (including Russian and Korean), it reveals how the influence of the Soviets on Pyongyang diminished during the course of the Cold War, from overwhelming at the time of the foundation of North Korea to negligible at the time of the collapse of the USSR. The book delves into ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • 韩国研究论丛（2019年第2辑/总第38辑）

    by 复旦大学韩国研究中心 ...
    《韩国研究论丛》为复旦大学韩国研究中心主办的学术集刊，创刊于1995年，一直秉承“前沿、首创、权威”的宗旨，致力于朝鲜半岛问题研究，发表文章涉及朝鲜半岛问题研究的各个领域。全书设有政治、外交与安全；历史、哲学与文化；社会、经济与管理三个专题。 ... Read more

    R352,67 or Free with Kobo Plus