Robert S. Kim
Historian of the Second World War in Asia
Robert S. Kim
Historian of the Second World War in Asia
Victory in Shanghai
Victory in Shanghai: The Journey to America of a Korean-American Founding Family of U.S. Intelligence and Special Operations tells the long-hidden story of the struggle to join the American people of a family from Korea. Exiled from the U.S. to Shanghai in the 1920s, they fought for the U.S. during the Second World War, the entire family resisting the Japanese occupation of Shanghai and three of its sons volunteering to serve in the U.S. Army. In gratitude for their wartime actions, Congress passed three extraordinary acts from 1946 to 1950 that admitted the entire family into the country. Americans at last, the Kim brothers became pioneers in the Central Intelligence Agency and the Army Special Forces, joining these organizations in their earliest years and becoming the first Asian-Americans to ascend to their leadership ranks. Their story is one of the great episodes of coming to America through heroic wartime actions in defense of the nation.
Victory in Shanghai in the University of Nebraska Press Spring/Summer 2025 Catalog
already published works by robert kim
Harley-Davidson WLA
The Harley-Davidson WLA was the main military motorcycle of the United States, the Soviet Union, Australia, and other Allied nations during the Second World War. This book tells for the first time the full story of its use by Allied armies worldwide, from military police of the U.S. Army in Europe and the Pacific to reconnaissance battalions of the tank armies of the Red Army on the Eastern Front.
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https://www.amazon.com/Harley-Davidson-WLA-Military-Motorcycle-Legends/dp/076435924X/
Project Eagle
In August 1945, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was ready to launch Project Eagle, its largest operation of the war. Across northern China and Korea and into the home islands of Japan, a combined U.S.-Korean operation would collect intelligence and wage a guerilla war in support of the U.S. invasion of Japan. Project Eagle drew on the expertise of Americans born and raised in the Christian missionary communities of Korea, and it allied the OSS with the Korean liberation movement in exile that for decades had sought American support. Project Eagle is the first published history of this seminal moment for U.S. intelligence and the U.S-Korea relationship.
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/potomac-books/9781612348698/
https://www.amazon.com/Project-Eagle-American-Christians-North/dp/1612348696/
American Pyongyang
American Pyongyang
Pyongyang, capital of the totalitarian regime of North Korea, once was the center of Christianity in Korea and home to an American community that lasted for half a century. Ended by the Second World War and erased from history by the North Korean regime and the disinterest of American academia, this unique episode in the relationship between Korea and the United States is revealed in American Pyongyang: The American Christian Community of the North Korean Capital, 1895-1942 . This illustrated history is based on the archives of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches and the family collections of living members and descendants of the American community of Pyongyang.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Pyongyang-Christian-Community-1895-1942/dp/1544060548/