The History of Korea

Humans are particularly horrible animals. All the incursions into Korea described in this book reinforced that statement for me but what did impress me is the resilience of the Korean people.
I now have an adopted Korean grandson and I wanted to delve into what might have made him who he is. This

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book to me a long way into that but I need to read something that takes me into recent history and discusses the Korean War, why it happened and how the split country developed into the technological powerhouse it now seems to be.

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