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GENERAL NONFICTION The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea, by Charles Robert Jenkins, with Jim Frederick. California, March 2008. $24.95
If the combination is possible, this little book is at once banal and mesmerizing. It is the first-person story (told through the pen of a Time magazine writer) of an American soldier who, in a fit of true stupidity, decided to desert his US Army unit by walking across the DMZ into...