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Bantam
October 2001
400 pages
ISBN: 055338029X
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Memoir
In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima β and into history. Through a hail of machine- gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the islandβs 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 menβs paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacificβs most crucial island β 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.
 Media BuzzImus in the Morning - October 13, 2006
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