She Is Mine: A War Orphans' Incredible Journey of Survival by Stephanie Fast

By Stephanie Fast

Her father was once an American serviceman, her mom a tender Korean girl harassed via the ravages of conflict. deserted at age 4, anonymous, homeless, and totally on my own, this baby roamed the grim, war-ravaged geographical region of South Korea for 3 years and was once ultimately left for lifeless. however the author had different plans and published them throughout the phrases, "She Is Mine."

Show description

Read or Download She Is Mine: A War Orphans' Incredible Journey of Survival PDF

Best asian history books

Privatisation in India: Challenging economic orthodoxy (India in the Modern World)

Over the last decade India has been venture a programme of monetary reform, and whilst the economic system has been transforming into at a excessive fee. As a part of the reform programme, and based on winning fiscal considering, India has been privatising its huge, ungainly public zone. One assumption underlying this programme is the dogma that public area organizations are doomed to inefficiency, and that aggressive industry forces will be depended on to make organizations extra effective when they are privatised.

The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Revolution in the Twenty-first Century (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

The e-book bargains with the dynamics and progress of a violent twenty first century communist uprising initiated in Nepal via the Communist occasion of Nepal (Maoist) – CPN(M). It contextualizes and explains why and the way a violent Maoist insurgency grew in Nepal after the tip of the chilly warfare, unlike the decline of alternative radical communist activities in so much elements of the area.

The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World (Contemporary Asia in the World)

Many inspiration China’s upward thrust might essentially remake the worldwide order. but, very like different constructing countries, the chinese language nation now unearths itself entrenched in a standing quo characterised by way of unfastened alternate and American domination. via a state of the art old, sociological, and political research, Ho-fung Hung exposes the competing pursuits and financial realities that mood the dream of chinese language supremacy—forces which are stymieing progress in the course of the international South.

F4U Corsair vs Ki-84 "Frank”: Pacific Theater 1945 (Duel)

The Vought Corsair used to be the 1st American single-engined fighter to exceed four hundred mph and identify dominance over the mythical Mitsubishi sort Zero-sen. The Ki-84 Hayate used to be brought via the japanese particularly to counter this turning out to be American dominance of the skies over the Pacific. inbuilt larger numbers than the other past due conflict jap fighter, approximately 3000 have been accomplished among 1944 and 1945.

Extra info for She Is Mine: A War Orphans' Incredible Journey of Survival

Sample text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.29 of 5 – based on 25 votes