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

A memoir from the New York Times bestselling author of Warning of War and Marines of Autumn James Bradys The Scariest Place in the World.. Half a century after he fought there as a young lieutenant of Marines James Brady returns to the brooding Korean ridgelines and mountains to sound taps for a generation. Its been years since Brady first wrote of Korea in The Coldest War drawing raves from Walter Cronkite and The New York Times which called it a superb personal memoir of the way it was. . 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 Bradys words raw meat on the point of a sharpened stick. 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.. Brady summons up the past and illuminates the present be it the Korea of the forgotten war the Yanks who fought there long ago or todays soldiers standing wary sentinel over the scariest place in the world. The result is uplifting inspiring often heartbreaking and this Brady memoir proves as powerful as his first.