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Jan 1, 2015 · In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot , New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception—and escape.
Mar 12, 2021 · Developing a new fighter from scratch would be prohibitively costly, and the F-35 replaces too many older planes for which there is no ready alternative. Older fighters in the American fleet ...
Oct 29, 2023 · The opera implies that old-fashioned fighter piloting is nobler, and better for soldiers’ mental health, than the video-game-style drone deployment that has expanded the battlefield to...
Apr 27, 2015 · Sara Krulwich/The New York Times. Here’s some unusual tabloid fodder: Anne Hathaway has joined the Air Force! Well, no, not really. But that Oscar-winning actor gives a fiercely good...
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In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of... more
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CNN cites The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot to explain how Trump’s North Korea threats are catnip for Kim Jong Un. Reviews New York Times : “fascinating” and “artful.”
Beginning with the arbitrary division of Korea in 1945 and ending two months after the shaky armistice that halted combat in the Korean War, The Great Leader & the Fighter Pilot is an ambitious and gripping book which digs deeply into the character of the Kim family dictatorship.
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- Blaine Harden
