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THE SCARIEST PLACE IN THE WORLD
By: James Brady
A Marine Returens To North Korea
St. Martin's Griffin
April 2006
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Featuring: James Brady
288 pages
ISBN: 0312332432
EAN: 9780312332433
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Non-Fiction Memoir
βThis powerful narrative is an endearing piece of warriorβs nostalgia, written with the accustomed skill by a seasoned writer.β
---Publishers Weekly
βGraceful, even elegant, and always eloquent tribute to men at arms in a war that, in a way, never ended.β
---Kirkus Reviews
βJames Brady has done it again.Β A riveting and illuminating insight into a dark corner of the world.β
---Tim Russert, NBCβs Meet the Press
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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. Itβs 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 βa superb personal memoir of the way it was.β
In the spring of 2003, Brady and Pulitzer Prizeβwinning 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 Bradyβs words, βraw meat on the point of a sharpened stick.β 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 βthe forgotten war,β the Yanks who fought there long ago, or todayβs soldiers standing wary sentinel over βthe scariest place in the world.β The result is uplifting, inspiring, often heartbreaking, and this new Brady memoir proves as powerful as his first.
 Media BuzzToday - January 28, 2009
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