The Scariest Place in the World: A Marine Returns to North Korea

"Half a century after he fought there as a young lieutenant of Marines, James Brady returns to the brooding Korean ridge-lines and mountains to sound taps for a generation." "In the spring of 2003 Brady and Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer Eddie Adams flew in Black Hawk choppers and trekked the Demilitarized Zone where it meanders into North Korea, interviewing four-star generals and bunking in with tough U.S. recon troops, in Brady's words, "raw meat on the point of a sharpened stick." The two Marine veterans bond with this platoon of youthful GIs confronting the loopy and nuclear saber-rattling North, in a contemporary Korea that just might become the battleground where we have to fight our next war. Brady recalls that first time on bloody Hill 749, the men who died there, what happened to the Marines who lived to make it home, and experiences yet again the emotional pull of a lifelong love affair with the Corps in which they all served."--BOOK JACKET.Brady, James is the author of 'The Scariest Place in the World: A Marine Returns to North Korea' with ISBN 9780786278114 and ISBN 0786278110.