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The Two Koreas : A Contemporary History
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The Two Koreas : A Contemporary History Paperback - 2002

by Oberdorfer, Don

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  • Title The Two Koreas : A Contemporary History
  • Author Oberdorfer, Don
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Rev. & upd.
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 521
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books (AZ), New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date February 5, 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 573795-20
  • ISBN 9780465051625 / 0465051626
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.56 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1480
  • Library of Congress subjects Korea (South) - History, Korea (North) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001043486
  • Dewey Decimal Code 951.904

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A loft on dazzling white wings, the great cranes wheel in the sky and float down for a landing in a richly forested, unspoiled two-and-a-half-mile strip of land that stretches like a ribbon for 150 miles across the waist of the Korean peninsula.

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About the author

Don Oberdorfer wrote for the Washington Post for twenty-five years. He was a National Book Award finalist for Tet! The Turning Point in the Vietnam War and holds a Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton for public service. He is currently a resident scholar at Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He lives in Washington, D.C.