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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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • North Korea, Iran and the Challenge to International Order

    A Comparative Perspective

    by Patrick McEachern, Jaclyn O’Brien McEachern ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book examines and compares the political situations in North Korea and Iran, and the contemporary security challenges posed by their illicit nuclear aspirations.While government officials, including a series of American presidents, strategic policy documents and outside analysts have repeatedly noted that North Korea and Iran occupy a similar challenge, the commonality has largely been left ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • Marching Through Suffering

    Loss and Survival in North Korea

    by Sandra Fahy ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime.These oral ... Read more

    R511,28

  • 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

  • Reconstructing Ancient Korean History

    The Formation of Korean-ness in the Shadow of History

    by Stella Xu ...
    This book examines the contested re-readings of “Korea” in early Chinese historical records and their influence on the formation of Korean-ness in later periods. The earliest written records on “Koreans” are found in Chinese documents produced during the Han dynasty, from the third century BCE to the third century CE. Since then, these early Chinese records have been used as primary sources for ... Read more

    R680,44

  • Colonizing Language

    Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea

    by Christina Yi ...
    With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan embarked on a policy of territorial expansion that would claim Taiwan and Korea, among others. Assimilation policies led to a significant body of literature written in Japanese by colonial writers by the 1930s. After its unconditional surrender in 1945, Japan abruptly receded to a nation-state, establishing its present-day borders. ... Read more

    R1 095,82

  • 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

  • 서식지: 야만의 본성

    by Yeong Hwan Choi ...
    짐승들이 짓밟고 간 윤리 위에서, 인간은 어떻게 살아남는가.집단이 선을 정의하는 시대,도덕은 권력의 언어가 되었다.서식지: 야만의 본성은 도덕이 죽은 세상에서 인간으로 버티려는 기록이다.황금연휴를 앞두고, 사람들은 여행 계획을 세웠다. 그사이 부동산은 치솟고, 경찰은 공안이 되었다. 특검은 권력의 발밑에서 사람을 죽였고, 젊은 세대는 끊임없는 돈 풀기로 나랏빚을 떠안았다. 기업은 떠나고, 일자리는 사라졌다.짐승들은 그 틈을 타 인간의 허리를 잘라냈다. 일본으로 향하는 비행기 안에서도 숙청과 혁명은 멈추지 않았다.개헌을 주도하는 자들은 "국민의 결정에 달렸다"고 말했다.그 문장은 독재정권과 매우 유사했다. 법은 우두머리를 지키기 위해 수시로 색을 바꿨으며, 판사의 양심은 그 색에 쉽게 물들었다.이곳에서 나는 ... Read more

    R63,37 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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