Seasons in the Kingdom

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The compelling story of Mike and Songhi, an American GI and a young Korean woman, is recreated in Seasons in the Kingdom with haunting authenticity. The insightful and evocative portrayal of their intimate relationship is skillfully contrasted with detail evoking the banality of military camp life at a small American outpost, the Ascom City Confinement Facility of 1973-74. Surrounded by the uncomp

romising world of human struggle that was the camptown village, itself a cauldron of hope and despair, unwavering descriptions of village life reveal the shadowed world that generations of young American men knew and still remember, merging history and fiction into a memorably poignant love story. Revealing descriptions of the lives of young Korean women demonstrates with great sympathy the transformation of their hopes and dreams while shackled by economic and social bo***ge, victims of their own poverty and the economic weight of America. Deceit, betrayal, prostitution, racism, violence, are intertwined in this absorbing narrative of camptown society. Extraordinarily beautiful and detailed "word paintings" of the land and its people form the background of this drama, rounding out this unforgettable book, which resonates with the experiences of hundreds of thousands of US service men and the Koreans who knew them.

04/25/2017

The against-all-odds victory by Canadians in the 1951 Korean War battle of Kapyong rivals those at Vimy Ridge and Juno Beach, filmmaker says

04/18/2017

How to Write, Publish, and Market your first book in 3 simple steps.

04/13/2017

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An Associated Press investigation of U.N. missions during the past 12 years found nearly 2,000 allegations of s*xual abuse and exploitation by peaceke

04/13/2017

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Pearl Buck wrote over 20 novels during her lifetime. Here are 10 of her best historical fiction novels.

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"I have been a lifelong witness to the abuse of women, and I am on their side in this fight. Words are my weapons."--Tennessee Williams/1982 (Photo by Carl Van Vechten)

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Preparation for the 75th Military Police Regimental Anniversary is well underway. We are looking forward to having the MP Regiment assembled here in Fort Leonard Wood, MO. "From the Marechaussee to the Military Police of Today" "Of the Troops and For the Troops"

05/03/2016

Babies are strapped into airplane seats enroute to LAX during “Operation Babylift” with airlifted orphans from Vietnam to the US. April 12, 1975.

04/28/2016

Various videos of the Korean DMZ, 54 to 91! Photos are prominently from DMZ veterans. "This was our world, this was our war"

04/28/2016

U.S. military aircraft in recent days conducted their first patrol close to a shoal in the South China Sea near the Philippines, U.S. officials said, in a message to Beijing over a potential new flashpoint in the region.

04/28/2016

More than 50 years after her American solider father left South Korea, Jang Yeon-hee still longs to meet the parent who she has never known. “Whenever I take the subway I see a lot of foreign tourists en route to Incheon International Airport,” Jang said in an interview with The Korea Herald. “When…

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