Author: James Bradley, Ron Powers
Translator: Dong-hoon Lee
Publisher: Hwaggumgaji
575 pages | 210*148mm
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About This Book
The Battle of Iwo Jima, fought in the winter of 1945 on a rocky island
south of Japan, brought a ferocious slice of hell to earth: in a month's
time, more than 22,000 Japanese soldiers would die defending a patch of
ground a third the size of Manhattan, while nearly 26,000 Americans fell
taking it from them. The battle was a turning point in the war in the
Pacific, and it produced one of World War II's enduring images: a
photograph of six soldiers raising an American flag on the flank of
Mount Suribachi, the island's commanding high point.
One of those young Americans was John Bradley, a Navy corpsman who a few
days before had braved enemy mortar and machine-gun fire to administer
first aid to a wounded Marine and then drag him to safety. For this act
of heroism Bradley would receive the Navy Cross, an award second only to
the Medal of Honor.
Bradley, who died in 1994, never mentioned his feat to his family. Only
after his death did Bradley's son James begin to piece together the
facts of his father's heroism, which was but one of countless acts of
sacrifice made by the young men who fought at Iwo Jima. Flags of Our
Fathers recounts the sometimes tragic life stories of the six men who
raised the flag that February day--one an Arizona Indian who would die
following an alcohol-soaked brawl, another a Kentucky hillbilly, still
another a Pennsylvania steel-mill worker--and who became reluctant
heroes in the bargain. A strongly felt and well-written entry in a spate
of recent books on World War II, Flags gives a you-are-there depiction
of that conflict's horrible arenas--and a moving homage to the men whom
fate brought there. --Gregory McNamee
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