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Following the North Korean assault on the Republic of Korea in June of 1950, the invaders captured more than a thousand American soldiers and brutally executed hundreds more. American prisoners who survived their initial moments of captivity faced months of neglect, starvation, and brutal treatment as their captors marched them north toward prison camps in the Yalu River Valley. Cold Days in Hell provides a detailed account of their captivity and offers valuable insights into an ongoing issue: the conduct of prisoners in the hands of enemy captors.

Beware of Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing! When Max Harmon took the detective job in Rohm, he figured it was a nice little all-American town and a great place to spend his days until retirement. Boy, was he wrong! When a hitman comes to Rohm and assumes the role of the parish priest, something just doesn’t seem right. When everything you do is an uphill battle, sometimes the wise person reaches a point where enough is enough. As Max stands at a crossroads, he is faced with the daunting task of deciding to stay with the friends and colleagues he has taken him in, and face the continued Good ...

Are you dreaming of speaking Korean like a native—but struggling with speaking correct Korean? Well, if you're like most beginners, you're struggling with Korean particles. And these little words make a big difference. Get them right and you sound like a fluent speaker. Get them wrong and you sound like you only know random words. Even if you say everything else correctly, your whole sentence can lose its meaning. The good news is there is an EASY way to grasp Korean particles—easily create correct sentences and start speaking Korean like a native.

A major historical account of the Korean War, its origins, and its evolving impact on the world. Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents the first comprehensive history of this misunderstood war, one that risks involving the world’s superpowers - again. Her sweeping narrative ranges from the middle of the Second World War - when Korean independence was fiercely debated between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill - to the present day.

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.

In this book, former North Korea lead foreign service officer at the US embassy in Seoul, Patrick McEachern, unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format. Why have the two Koreas developed politically and economically in such radically different ways? What are the origins of a divided Korean Peninsula? Who rules the two Koreas? How have three generations of the authoritarian Kim dictatorship shaped North Korea?

FLANKER SERIES TO PROJECT MOLKA! Kang and Molka are locked in a life or death showdown with Raziela! What Readers Are Saying… “A GREAT NEW SERIES TO DIVE INTO AND ENJOY!” Based on Molka’s bad-ass, covert operative colleague from the PROJECT MOLKA Series! Book 1 details Kang and Molka’s joint operation to take down the ultra-dangerous Raziela! More Readers Speak… “This series just keeps getting better and better!” “GREAT escapism in today’s tough times!” “I both laughed and cried and that never happens for me in action-adventure novels!” “If you're a fan of any of...

The Korean War was a 20th Century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the world’s most secretive, belligerent, unpredictable and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into outright violence on a peninsula dense with arms, munitions and nuclear warheads. Cameron Forbes, acclaimed author of Hellfire, tells the story of the war and Australia’s involvement in it in a riveting narrative.

Embark on an intellectual odyssey with "Go: The Infinite Game," where the ancient art of Go meets the cutting edge of modern theory and technology. This comprehensive work is an essential guide for anyone drawn to the profound depths of this timeless game. Explore the rich tapestry of Go's history, from its origins to revolutionary modern play influenced by AI and quantum computing. Delve into advanced strategies, the intricacies of mathematical and computational analysis, and the psychological dynamics that make Go a microcosm of strategic thought. "Go: The Infinite Game" is not just a ...

A super fan with big dreams, The job close to the idol she adores, And a dangerous encounter which changes her life. Rachel tries so hard to convince herself this is all about getting a fantastic job. Sure, she would be working near a man who’s so perfect he could’ve been constructed from her fantasies, but that’s just the icing on the cake. The technician has hit the jackpot, landing a meeting to discuss working on the world tour of idol super group Sasin. The demonically themed band is the hottest thing around, so she has to conceal her luck or she'll never be offered the role. ...

A feisty journalist looking for a big break, The charismatic leader of an idol super-group, And a mysterious portal which throws them together. Sassy music journalist Amy thinks her fortunes have changed when she sees an opportunity to score an exclusive interview with idol super-group Sasin. What a pity it’s just a ruse. She’s gotten wasted after watching the group perform and been led astray by a couple of shady fans. As a positive twist, she unexpectedly meets Adam, the group’s leader, which is initially amazing but quickly descends into chaos. In the morning, she writes the ...

To say that the so-called Supreme Commanders of North Korea have been sticklers for submission would trivialize the more-than-troubling state of affairs that has plagued this precarious place for decades. The fearsome Kim regime, though relatively fresh in comparison to powerful dynasties that lasted for centuries, has become one of history's most controversial bloodlines, and not without cause.

"Grandpa was a Soldier" describes the life, adventures, and accomplishments of a fictional American, Zacharias Clifford Stillman, a native of small, remote, Judith Gap, Montana. The book describes his youth on a Montana ranch and his rise to the rank of colonel in the United States Army. Zack begins WWII service in the enlisted ranks, earns a battlefield commission and serves in the US Army Infantry throughout WWII and Korea. He later served in the Special Forces in Germany and Vietnam eventually retiring from the military and taking on a more sedentary life on a Montana college faculty. He...

"The master of assassin novels, Vince Flynn, now has serious competition." - Librarian review "If you like Clive Cussler, Matthew Reilly or Daniel Silva you will like this book, it had me gripped from page one and the ending is truly exciting." “Well-written, and there is much in it of history, adventure, and suspense.” - The Writer’s Edge Frank Murdoch lives on a remote private island in Alaska, drawn there by its peace and isolation. There he finds a secret, unearthed from a cave sealed for seven decades. His historical research attracts Abby Sinclair, a lovely archaeologist. But it...

Can't I Go Instead follows the lives of the daughter of a Korean nobleman and her maidservant in the early 20th century. When the daughter’s suitor is arrested as a Korean Independence activist, and she is implicated during the investigation, she is quickly forced into marriage to one of her father’s Japanese employees and shipped off to the United States. At the same time, her maidservant is sent in her mistress's place to be a comfort woman to the Japanese Imperial army.

Gourmet Food, Scrub, and Happiness in Body and Seoul: A Short Visit to South Korea (2011) is K.I. Peeler's second book in her World Travel Series. Peeler has been to South Korea five times, watched many Korean movies and TV dramas, and she enjoy its culture very much. In the book, Peeler and two of her friends from undergraduate days in Japan visit Seoul for three days. They meet Miss Choi, their tour guide, who is the same age and has beautiful skin. Her youthful look becomes the envy of the three women, and they try to unlock her Korean beauty secrets during their stay - food and spa. The...

Jackie Oh is done being your model minority. She’s tired of perfect GPAs, PSATs, SATs, all of it. Jackie longs to become a professional chef. But her Korean American parents are Ivy League corporate workaholics who would never understand her dream. Just ask her brother, Justin, who hasn’t heard from them since he was sent to Rikers Island. Jackie works at her grandparents’ Midtown Manhattan deli after school and practices French cooking techniques at night—when she should be studying.

The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies have received little attention from historians, despite being an elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and dangerous missions in Korea. Rarely receiving more attention than a footnote, their story usually begins and ends on the night of September 12, 1950, with an amphibious raid near Kunsan. Until their inactivation on March 31, 1951, SAG simply disappears from most Korean War histories.

It’s finally summer break, and twelve-year-old Yumi is headed to Korea with her older sister, Minji, for the very first time. She can’t wait to explore the city of Seoul together—but Minji has other plans. The moment they land, Minji ditches Yumi to hang out with their cousins, who are more fashionable, better at soccer, and all-around cooler than Yumi. Lost and alone, Yumi is stuck at home painting with her grandfather. Everything changes when she finds an intriguing ink brush in a neighborhood art shop.

In Fire and Lamentations, Janvier T. Chando offers readers succinct accounts of the lives, ideals, and untimely deaths of the towering political figures whose assassinations shocked American society, triggered domestic political transformations, and fundamentally altered America foreign policy, so that the United States of America lost its innocence forever. Spanning a century, the shooting deaths of four United States Presidents — Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield, and John F. Kennedy — and the country’s soul and the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. brought...