The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
Charles Robert Jenkins
Mar 2018 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by John McLain
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In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where for forty years he suffered under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes the world has known. This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick), takes the listener behind the North Korean curtain and reveals the inner workings of its isolated society while offering a powerful testament to the human spirit.
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Charles Robert Jenkins (1940-2017) was a United States Army soldier who lived in North Korea from 1965 to 2004.
John McLain is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator who has recorded over 140 audiobook titles, from thrillers to nonfiction, westerns to mysteries, and more. John was nominated for an Audie Award in 2012 for his narration of The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses by Sharon Ewell Foster.
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