Escape from Camp 14

ISBN: 9780330519540
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Weight, 250 g
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Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape . . .

Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a 'complete control district,' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life.

No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped. No one except Shin. This is his story.

A gripping, terrifying memoir with a searing sense of place, Escape from Camp 14 will unlock, through Shin, a dark and secret nation, taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go.

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Saiful Azri
Escape from Camp 14

The country is widely ignored by a lot of the world and the Korean War has been referred to as "The Forgotten War". Very interesting book about a topic not discussed enough.

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Normalia Omar
Good to read! 👍

This book at least starts to open our eyes about the situation, not only in the camps, but in North Korea as a whole. 
The book explores the utter horror that Shin lived through, and really, is still suffering from the impact of it all today. Shin lived the majority of his life in camp 14, where he was abused, starved, and was forced to watch the executions of his mother and brother, their punishment for attempting to escape the camp. 
This is a tough read about remarkable story of endurance and survival.