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Author Jenkins, Charles Robert, 1940-2017

Title The reluctant communist : my desertion, court-martial, and forty-year imprisonment in North Korea / Charles Robert Jenkins ; with Jim Frederick
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 192 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Super Jenkins -- In the army, and across the DMZ -- Housemates -- Cooks, cadets, and wives -- Soga-san -- Friends and strangers -- Domestic life -- Hitomi's escape -- My escape -- Homecomings
Summary 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
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Subject Jenkins, Charles Robert, 1940-2017
SUBJECT Jenkins, Charles Robert, 1940-2017 fast
Jenkins, Charles Robert, (1940- ...) ram
Subject Military deserters -- United States -- Biography
Americans -- Korea (North) -- Biography
Defectors -- Korea (North) -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
HISTORY -- Military -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Americans
Defectors
Manners and customs
Military deserters
Déserteurs -- États-Unis -- Biographies.
Prisonniers politiques -- Corée (République populaire démocratique)
SUBJECT Korea (North) -- Social life and customs
Subject Korea (North)
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Frederick, Jim, 1971-2014.
ISBN 9780520934283
0520934288