Victory in Shanghai : A Korean American Family's Journey to the CIA and the Army Special Forces

Potomac Books Inc

Victory in ShanghaiA Korean American Family's Journey to the CIA and the Army Special Forces\nAuthor(s): Robert S. Kim\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Potomac Books Inc, United States\nImprint: Potomac Books Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640126329, 978-1640126329\nSynopsis\nVictory in Shanghai tells the long-hidden story of a family from Korea that struggled for three decades to become Americans and ultimately fought their way to the United States through heroic actions with the [url] Army during World War II. Among the first families from Korea to migrate to the United States in the early twentieth century, the Kim family was forced into exile in Shanghai in the mid-1920s after a new [url] immigration law in 1924 excluded Asians. Two decades later, the familys four sons-raised as Americans in the expatriate community of Shanghai-voluntarily stepped forward during World War II to defend the nation they considered theirs.\n\n From both sides of the Pacific, the Kim brothers served in uniform with t.