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The great leader and the fighter pilot : the true story of the tyrant who created North Korea and the young lieutenant who stole his way to freedom / by Harden, Blaine.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Players and Game -- Part I: Guerrilla and Rich Boy -- Beginnings -- Poodle and Pretender -- Sweet-Talking Stalin -- Part II: War -- The Great Liberation Struggle -- Kicked in the Teeth -- MiGs -- Return to North Korea -- An International Sporting Event -- Attack Maps and Defection Bribes -- Uncle Yoo -- Part III: Flight -- Flying Clear -- Squeezing the Moolah -- Right Stuff and Fake Stuff -- Learning and Purging -- Epilogue."From the bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14, the murderous rise of North Korea's founding dictator and the fighter pilot who faked him out. 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. As Kim ascended from Soviet puppet to godlike ruler, No Kum Sok noisily pretended to love his Great Leader. That is, until he swiped a Soviet MiG-15 and delivered it to the Americans, not knowing they were offering a $100,000 bounty for the warplane (the equivalent of nearly one million dollars today). The theft--just weeks after the Korean War ended in July 1953--electrified the world and incited Kim's bloody vengeance. During the Korean War the United States brutally carpet bombed the North, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and giving the Kim dynasty, as Harden reveals, the fact-based narrative it would use to this day to sell paranoia and hatred of Americans. Drawing on documents from Chinese and Russian archives about the role of Mao and Stalin in Kim's shadowy rise, as well as from never-before-released U.S. intelligence and interrogation files, Harden gives us a heart-pounding escape adventure and an entirely new way to understand the world's longest-lasting totalitarian state"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Kim, Il-sŏng, 1912-1994.; No, Kum-Sok.; Defectors; Dictators; Escapes; Fighter pilots; Korean War, 1950-1953; Theft;
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Catch-22 [videorecording] / by Abbott, Christopher,1986-actor.; Alexander, Pico,1991-actor.; Chandler, Kyle,actor.; Clooney, George,actor.; Gavron, Rafi,actor.; Giannini, Giancarlo,actor.; television adaptation of (work):Heller, Joseph.Catch-22.; Laurie, Hugh,1959-actor.; Martin, Graham Patrick,1991-actor.; O'Connor, Kevin J.,1964-actor.; Stewart, Daniel David,actor.; Stowell, Austin,1984-actor.; Paramount Television,distributor.;
Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, Daniel David Stewart, Rafi Gavron, Graham Patrick Martin, Kevin J. O'Connor, Austin Stowell, George Clooney, Giancarlo Giannini, Hugh Laurie, Pico Alexander.Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a U.S. air squadron in Italy during World War II. Yossarian (Christopher Abbott), a bombardier, whose frantic obsession every time he goes up on a mission is "to come down alive." The real enemy for Yossarian and his rag-tag bunch of friends is the bureaucracy of the military, inverting logic at every turn. The pinnacle of this is Catch-22, a military by-law which states that if you fly your missions, you're crazy, and don't have to fly them; all you have to do is ask. But if you ask not to, then you're sane, and so you have to fly them.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Television comedies.; War television programs.; Television programs.; Television mini-series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; World War, 1939-1945; Male friendship; Bomber pilots; Fighter pilots;
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Lords of the sky : fighter pilots and air combat from the Red Baron to the F-16 / by Hampton, Dan;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Air warfare; Fighter plane combat; Fighter pilots;
© c2014., William Morrow,
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Knights of the air : Canadian fighter pilots in the First World War / by Bashow, David L.,1946-; Quick, Stephen P.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-203), Internet addresses and index.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; Fighter pilots;
© 2000., McArthur,
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Capsule [videorecording] / by Greenwood, Lisa,1988-actor.; Kingsley, Edmund,actor.; Martin, Andrew,film director,screenwriter.; Wayman, David,actor.; Forrest, Paul D,film producer.; levelFILM (Firm),presenter.; Level 33 Entertainment,publisher,presenter.; Phoenix Worldwide Entertainment,presenter.; Ecaveo Capital Partners,production company.;
Music, Hugo de Chaire ; editor, Jan Hillman ; director of photography, Felix Forrest.Edmund Kingsley, Lisa Greenwood, David Wayman.Set during the height of the Cold War, a British astronaut discovers that his space capsule is malfunctioning and he begins to suffer from the effects of hypoxia while in orbit. Will he manage to survive and make it back home to Earth?PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fighter pilots; Space flight; Astronauts; Space vehicles;
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Aces, warriors & wingmen : firsthand accounts of Canada's fighter pilots in the Second World War / by Ralph, Wayne Douglas,1946-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force; Air pilots, Military; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2005., John Wiley & Sons Canada,
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Someday I'll find you : a novel / by Humphreys, C. C.(Chris C.),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."For readers of The Nightingale and Lilac Girls, a dazzling novel about Ilse, a spy, and Billy, a pilot, who fall in love but are wrenched apart during World War II, and must find their way back to each other--from bestselling author C.C. Humphreys. When Billy Coke steps onto the streets of London one December evening in 1940, he has no idea he is stepping to his fate. As Hitler's bombers come close to burning the city down, Billy meets the woman who will change the course of his life: Ilse Magnusson, a musician from Norway, but also something more--a spy in training. Escaping the Blitz for three days, she and Billy drive, quarrel, conceal, reveal ... and fall finally, fully, in love. Now they must part, each to fight the war their own way. Billy, a Canadian Spitfire pilot, to duel with the Luftwaffe over North Africa and the Med. Ilse to return to her conquered country, ingratiate herself with the Nazi elite--which includes her beloved father--and send vital intelligence back to Britain. They know that the odds of both of them surviving are poor. All they can hope is that the other does survive--and that someday they find each other again. From decadent pre-war Berlin to the atrocity at Guernica, from dogfights over Sicily to an Oslo ground under the German jackboot, through small victories and bitter losses, this is the story of a man and a woman at war. A tale of causes and compromises, heroism and betrayal. Of choices made, with consequences unforeseen. And finally, how sometimes ... love can give you a second chance."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Women spies; Fighter pilots; Man-woman relationships; World War, 1939-1945;
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The race of aces : WWII's elite airmen and the epic battle to become the master of the sky / by Bruning, John R.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; United States. Army Air Forces; Fighter pilots; World War, 1939-1945;
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The spitfire luck of Skeets Ogilvie : from the Battle of Britain to the great escape / by Ogilvie, Keith C.,1948-; Ogilvie, Keith C.,1948-You never know your luck.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.A young Canadian spitfire pilot finds adventure, love, and a remarkable dose of luck on the frontlines of the Second World War.LSC
Subjects: Ogilvie, Keith, 1915-1998.; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 609.; Great Britain. Royal Air Force; Fighter pilots; Fighter pilots; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoners of war;
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The courage of the early morning : a biography of the great ace of World War I / by Bishop, William Arthur,1923-;
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Subjects: Bishop, William A., 1894-1956.; Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps; Fighter pilots; World War, 1914-1918;
© c2011., Thomas Allen Publishers,
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