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Signed: FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS by James Bradley with Ron Powers (2000 HC)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Features
- Signed, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- Year
- 2000
- Signed
- Yes
- Modified Item
- Yes
- Subject
- Military & War
- ISBN
- 9780553111330
- Book Title
- Flags of Our Fathers
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Modern / 20th Century, Military
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 21.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Product Information
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. 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 flagraisers 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. But perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo--three were killed during the battle--were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: "The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back. " 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0553111337
ISBN-13
9780553111330
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1641597
Product Key Features
Book Title
Flags of Our Fathers
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Modern / 20th Century, Military
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
21.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D767.99.I9b73 2000
Reviews
"The best battle book I ever read. These stories, from the time the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima enlisted, their training, and the landing and subsequent struggle, fill me with awe."-Stephen Ambrose, "The best battle book I ever read. These stories, from the time the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima enlisted, their training, and the landing and subsequent struggle, fill me with awe." -- Stephen Ambrose
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
00-025803
Dewey Decimal
940.54/2528
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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