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Escape from Camp 14

Escape from Camp 14

Author(s): Blaine Harden

Location(s): North Korea

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): Late 1900s onwards

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This book, written by journalist Blaine Harden, brings to life the terrible reality of life in one of North Korea’s many Gulags that still exist today. The story of a young man, Shin Dong-Hyuak, who spent the first 26 years of life, born and brought up within the prison walls.

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“Through the extraordinary arc of Shin”s life, Harden illuminates the North Korea that exists beyond the headlines and creates a moving testament to one man”s struggle to retrieve his own lost humanity.”—Marcus Noland, co-author...

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