[James Bradley] Flags of Our Fathers

Autor: James Bradley
Tytuł: Flags of Our Fathers
ISBN: 9780553589344
Wydawca: Bantam
Przybliżona ilość stron: 576
Oprawa: Mass Market Paperback
Przybliżone wymiary i waga: 17.4 cm x 10.7 cm x 0.29 kg x 3.3 cm

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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…

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say Iwo Jima, And What Comes To Mind? Most Likely A Famous Photograph From 1945: Six Tired, Helmeted Marines, Fresh From A Long, Terrifying And Bloody Battle, Work Together To Raise The American Flag On Mount Suribachi. Bradley’s Father, John, Was One Of The Six. In This Voluminous And Memorable Work Of Popular History Mixed With Memoir, Bradley And Powers (white Town Drowsing) Reconstruct Those Marines’ Experiences, And Those Of Their Pacific Theater Comrades. The Authors Begin With The Six Soldiers’ Childhoods. Soon Enough, Bombs Have Fallen On Pearl Harbor, And By May ’43 The Young Men Have Become Proud Leathernecks. Bradley And Powers Incorporate Accounts Of Specific Battles, Like Hellzapoppin Ridge (bougainville, December ’43), And Pull In Corps Life And Lore, From The Tough-minded To The Slightly Silly, From Mandatory Penis Inspections (medics Checking For Vd) To Life In The Pitch-dark Of Tent City No. 1. And They Cover The Strategy And Tactics Leading Up To The Awful Battle For The Island–the Navy’s Disputed Plans For Offshore Bombardment, Cut At The Last Minute From 10 Days To Three; The 16 Miles Of Japanese Underground Tunnels, Far More Than Allied Intelligence Expected. A Quarter Of The Book Follows The Fighting On Iwo Jima, Sortie By Sortie. The Final Chapters Pursue The Veterans’ Subsequent Lives: Bradley And Powers Set Themselves Against Often-sanctimonious Tradition, Retrieving The Stories Of Six More Or Less Troubled Individuals From The Anonymity Of Heroic Myth. A Simple Thesis Emerges From All The Detail Worked Into This Touching Group Portrait, In A Comment By John Bradley: The Heroes Of Iwo Jima Are The Guys Who Didn’t Come Back. No Reader Will Forget The Lesson. (may) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|