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Victory in Shanghai
2025
Overview
Victory 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 U.S. 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 U.S.
immigration law in 1924 excluded Asians. Two decades later, the
family’s 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. From both sides of the Pacific, the Kim brothers served
in uniform with the U.S. Army and in the underground U.S.
intelligence network in Shanghai. At the end of the war the
eldest son led the liberation of seven thousand American and
Allied civilians held in Japanese internment camps in Shanghai.
His actions and the support of the leading generals of the U.S.
Army in China led to three special acts of Congress that granted
him U.S. citizenship and admitted the entire Kim family into the
United States. Four Kim brothers became some of the earliest
intelligence officers of the nascent U.S. intelligence community,
and three of them ascended to leadership positions in the CIA and
the Army Special Forces.
Victory in Shanghai tells two intertwined American
origin stories: a Korean family’s struggle to become
Americans during the World War II era and the contributions of
Korean Americans to the creation of modern U.S. intelligence and
special operations. Withheld from the public until recently due
to the secrecy surrounding their actions during World War II and
the Cold War, the history of the Kim family is one of the great
stories of coming to America and defending and strengthening it
in the process.
Publisher
Potomac Books,University of Nebraska Press,Potomac Books, Incorporated
Subject
ISBN
9781640126329, 1640126325, 1640126619, 9781640126619
