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Subject(s)

• Korean War, 1950-1953—Secret service—United States [Browse]
• Korean War, 1950-1953—Personal narratives, American [Browse]
• Boyd, Arthur L. 1928- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Personal narratives [Browse]

Summary note

Presents a first-person account of the top-secret intelligence mission into North Korea in 1952 for the purpose of gathering information about Chinese and Soviet troop strength and atomic weaponry, describing how their efforts helped to prevent another world war.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

• Prologue: The ledge
• Texas, the United States, 1950
• Kaufbauren, Germany, 1951
• Heidelberg, Germany, August 1951
• From Germany to Japan
• Camp Drake, Japan
• Mission staging
• Rehearsal
• From Japan to North Korea
• Behind enemy lines
• A brush with death
• Danger intensifies
• A botched rescue attempt
• The end in sight
• Disaster
• Escape to the sea
• Death of a patrol
• A night in hell
• The ledge
• Safe at last
• Debriefing
• Epilogue
• Afterword: the Korean military intelligence war / Jay T. Young.

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Other title(s)

Truman's secret North Korean spy mission that averted World War III

ISBN

• 9780786720866 ((hardcover))
• 0786720867 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2007019616

OCLC

124539070

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