Escape from Camp 14

Brief Summary

Most of us can’t even imagine a place like Camp 14, a North Korean prison camp where prisoners are born, raised, and die without ever knowing freedom. But Shin Dong-hyuk lived it, and eventually managed to escape. Blaine Harden’s book tells the terrifying true story of Shin’s life, from watching his family be executed to crawling through an electrified fence to find freedom. This book gives a unique glimpse into the secretive and brutal regime of one of the most closed countries in the world.