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The Scariest Place in the World - A Marine Returns to North Korea (Paperback)
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The Scariest Place in the World - A Marine Returns to North Korea (Paperback)
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"This powerful narrative is an endearing piece of warrior's
nostalgia, written with the accustomed skill by a seasoned
writer."
---"Publishers Weekly"
"Graceful, even elegant, and always eloquent tribute to men at arms
in a war that, in a way, never ended."
---"Kirkus Reviews"
"James Brady has done it again. A riveting and illuminating insight
into a dark corner of the world."
---Tim Russert, NBC's "Meet the Press"
Half a century after he fought there as a young lieutenant of
Marines, James Brady returns to the brooding Korean ridgelines and
mountains to sound taps for a generation. It's been fifteen years
since Brady first wrote of Korea in "The Coldest War, "drawing
raves from Walter Cronkite and "The New York Times," which called
it "a superb personal memoir of the way it was."
In the spring of 2003, Brady and Pulitzer Prize-winning combat
photographer Eddie Adams flew in Black Hawk choppers and trekked
the Demilitarized Zone where it meanders into North Korea,
interviewing four-star generals and bunking in with tough U.S.
recon troops, in Brady's words, "raw meat on the point of a
sharpened stick." Brady recalls that first time on bloody Hill 749,
the men who died there, what happened to the Marines who lived to
make it home, and experiences yet again the emotional pull of a
lifelong love affair with the Corps in which they all served.
Brady summons up the past and illuminates the present, be it the
Korea of "the forgotten war," the Yanks who fought there long ago,
or today's soldiers standing wary sentinel over "the scariest place
in the world." The result is uplifting, inspiring, often
heartbreaking, and this new Brady memoir proves as powerful as
hisfirst.
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