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1	A Single Shard more books like this by Linda Sue Park add to wishlist Tree-ear, an orphan, has become fascinated with the potters' craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes on Tree-ear as his helper, Tree-ear is elated--until he finds obstacles in his path: the backbreaking labor of digging and hauling clay, Min's irascible ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Honolulu more books like this by Alan Brennert add to wishlist "Honolulu" is the richly imagined story of Jin, a young 'picture bride' who leaves her native Korea - where girls are so little valued that she is known as Regret - and journeys to Hawaii in 1914 in search of a better life. Instead of the prosperous young husband and the chance at an education she has been promised, Jin is quickly married off to a ... see all copies from $11.80! new only from $18.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat more books like this by Bob Drury, Tom Clavin add to wishlist November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the ... see all copies from $4.83! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood more books like this by Richard E Kim add to wishlist In this classic tale, Richard Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. The book is at once a loving memory of family and a portrayal of life in a time of anguish. see all copies from $3.15! new only from $12.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Ten Degrees of Reckoning: The True Story of a Family's Love and the Will to Survive more books like this by Hester Rumberg add to wishlist In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to sail around the world. But one night, a freighter off the coast of New Zealand altered its course and changed everything. This is the unbelievable yet true story of one family's love, loss, and a remarkable woman who decided to live against all odds. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country more books like this by Mike Kim add to wishlist Escaping North Korea provides a rare and unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. It recounts firsthand experiences of enduring famine, women's sex trafficking experiences, and torture in the gulags, as well as inspirational stories of refugees who overcame tremendous adversity to escape the repressive regime of their ... see all copies from $11.34! new only from $15.08! \| SVS
7	The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy more books like this by Margaret Drabble add to wishlist Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
8	A Gesture Life more books like this by Chang-rae Lee add to wishlist A retired Japanese pharmacist living in a small New York State town hears news of his long-estranged adopted daughter. He finds himself thinking of an old lover--now dead--and of his experiences in World War II, realizes how truly lonely he has made his life, and resolves to change things before it's too late. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History more books like this by Mr. Bruce Cumings add to wishlist Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century", and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings' leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Last Parallel: A Marine's War Journal more books like this by Martin Russ add to wishlist Long regarded as one of the best books about combat written, this book tells of the experiences of combat soldiers during the Korean War. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors more books like this by Richard D Hooker, Jr. add to wishlist The novel that inspired the film and the television series of life in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, during the Korean War. Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hotlips Houlihan and Radar O'Reilly all make the 4077th MASH, like no other place in Korea. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.34! \| SVS
12 view cover	Red Phoenix more books like this by Larry Bond add to wishlist This thundering geopolitical thriller dares reveal the military hardware, global upheavals, and raw combat that a second Korean War would unleash. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Korean War more books like this by Max Hastings add to wishlist 'A brilliant and compelling book which must rank, even by the standards Max Hastings has set, as a masterpiece' - Professor Michael Howard, London Review of Books. On 25 June 1950, the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts of our battle-scarred century. The seemingly limitless ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.74! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Expediter more books like this by David Hagberg add to wishlist An explosive thriller that pits Kirk McGarvey against Kim Jong-Il see all copies from $3.84! new only from $7.79! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Pork Chop Hill more books like this by S L A Marshall add to wishlist Renowned military historian S.L.A. Marshall was in Korea in 1953, deep in enemy territory when Pork Chop Hill was overrun with Red Chinese troops. A handful of U.S. GIs on the frontline fought the Chinese and won. His classic account of the battle is "a distinguished contribution to the literature of war" ("The New York Times"). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War more books like this by Eric M Hammel add to wishlist During the brutally cold winter of 1950, it seemed the Korean conflict was all but over, then in November a force of Chinese volunteer fighters - armed with little more than rice flails and scythes - poured over the Yalu river, encircling the 30,000 UN troops at the Chosin Reservoir, including royal marines, and the U.S. 1st Marine Division. For ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Wilsonian Moment: Self Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism more books like this by Erez Manela add to wishlist During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his Fourteen Points, had called for "a free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of ... see all copies from $13.75! new only from $14.27! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Calligrapher's Daughter more books like this by Eugenia Kim add to wishlist In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother---but her stern father is determined to maintain tradition, especially as the Japanese steadily gain control of his beloved country. When he seeks to marry Najin into an ... see all copies from $13.18! new only from $17.35! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings more books like this by Professor Jahyun Kim Haboush, Hyegyonggung add to wishlist Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, is one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, which depicts a court life whose drama and pathos is of Shakespearean proportions. Presented in its social, cultural, and ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $18.88! \| SVS
20 view cover	MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero more books like this by Stanley Weintraub add to wishlist This history of the Korean War focuses on the 11-month command of General MacArthur, who, according to this account, almost single-handedly took America into the conflict. Historian Weintraub examines MacArthur's character and decision-making as well as the effect both of those had on American troops. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea more books like this by James Brady add to wishlist This memoir by the celebrated columnist for Parade magazine recounts his experiences as a young soldier and conveys the special sense of being there on the front lines in a cold, unfriendly, unknown region far away from home in a war whose outcome--and indeed legitimacy--was indeterminate at the time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars more books like this by Sheri Holman add to wishlist In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $25.38! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Hunters more books like this by James Salter add to wishlist James Salter's first novel is about a fighter pilot in the Korean War, of which the author is a veteran. Published in 1956. THE HUNTERS tells the story of Captain Steve Connell, who after an endless number of missions, finds his confidence waning--to the point where he begins to question the meaning of not only what he is doing but his entire ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	A Corpse in the Koryo more books like this by James Church add to wishlist Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south. Simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department's turf and into a maelstrom of betrayal and death. North Korea's leaders are desperate to hunt down and eliminate anyone who knows ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Eyes of the Tailless Animals: Prison Memoirs of a North Korean Women more books like this by Sun-Ok Yi add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $9.49!

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