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Bantam
October 2001
400 pages
ISBN: 055338029X
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Memoir
In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf
at Iwo Jima — and into history. Through a hail of machine-
gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with
comrades, they battled to the island’s highest peak. And
after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they
raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flag-raisers has written a
powerful account of six very different young men who came
together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph
or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family
discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of
Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to
retrace the lives of his father and the men of Easy
Company. Following these men’s paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has
written a classic story of the heroic battle for the
Pacific’s most crucial island — an island riddled with
Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would
fight to the last man. Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor
of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our
Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at
war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous
honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his
father. It is the story of the difference between truth
and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of
the human experience of war.
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