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The Scariest Place In The World
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
“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 his first.
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