H. K. Shin

Remembering Korea 1950: A Boy Soldier's Story

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Produktbeschreibung

Hyung K. Shin was a sixteen-year-old student when the army of North Korea invaded the South in June 1950. Shin rushed home to his family, only to find his father jailed, his brother missing. He was forced to leave his family and flee for his life, becoming a refugee in Pusan, alone without any means of support. To survive, he lied about his age and joined the South Korean army. Shin recounts the brutalities of the Korean War from the perspective of an ordinary teenager. He relates his hasty soldier's training and dangers in combat, atrocities in a prisoner-of-war camp, and becoming a refugee yet again when the Chinese invaded. Through it all, he struggled to retain his humanity and pursue his education. Shin's memoir is essential reading for any student of the Korean War. It is also a stirring monument to the survival of human decency and kindness in the midst of terror, cruelty, and destruction.

Produktdetails

• Battle Born
• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 134mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9780874174823
• ISBN-10: 0874174821
• Artikelnr.: 21809025

Autorenporträt

After the war, Hyung Kyu Shin came to the United States, studying at the University of Utah before joining the faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is professor emeritus of chemistry. A renowned scholar, he is the author of numerous articles on theoretical chemistry and chemical physics. This is his first nonscientific work.