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Flags of Our Fathers by Ron Powers and James Bradley (2006, Perfect, Movie...

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ISBN: 9780553384154

Book Title: Flags of Our Fathers

Item Length: 9in

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2006

Format: Perfect

Language: English

Item Height: 0.7in

Author: James Bradley, Ron Powers

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History

Topic: Military / World War II, Modern / 20th Century, Military

Item Width: 6in

Item Weight: 18.2 Oz

Number of Pages: 400 Pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The perfect gift for Father's Day, this 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

0553384155

ISBN-13

9780553384154

eBay Product ID (ePID)

51069895

Product Key Features

Book Title

Flags of Our Fathers

Author

James Bradley, Ron Powers

Format

Perfect

Language

English

Topic

Military / World War II, Modern / 20th Century, Military

Publication Year

2006

Genre

Biography & Autobiography, History

Number of Pages

400 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

9in

Item Height

0.7in

Item Width

6in

Item Weight

18.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number

D767.99.I9b73 2006b

Edition Description

Movie Tie-In

Reviews

"Unforgettable . . . one of the most instructive and moving books on war and its aftermath that we are likely to see . . . its portrayal rivals Saving Private Ryan in its shocking, unvarnished immediacy."- The New York Times "The best battle book I ever read . . . These stories, chronicling 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 E. Ambrose "A powerful book whose vivid and horrific images do not easily leave the mind . . . [ Flags of Our Fathers ] relates the brutalizing story of Iwo Jima with a fine eye for both the strategic imperative and the telling incident." -The Boston Globe "Brings a heartfelt personal dimension to this penetrating and insightful look at an American icon . . . Flags of Our Fathers captivates as the story behind a famous photo; a story that lives on in a son's heart." -National Review, "Unforgettable . . . one of the most instructive and moving books on war and its aftermath that we are likely to see . . . its portrayal rivals Saving Private Ryan in its shocking, unvarnished immediacy."-- The New York Times "The best battle book I ever read . . . These stories, chronicling 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 E. Ambrose "A powerful book whose vivid and horrific images do not easily leave the mind . . . [ Flags of Our Fathers ] relates the brutalizing story of Iwo Jima with a fine eye for both the strategic imperative and the telling incident." --The Boston Globe "Brings a heartfelt personal dimension to this penetrating and insightful look at an American icon . . . Flags of Our Fathers captivates as the story behind a famous photo; a story that lives on in a son's heart." --National Review

2006

Lccn

2006-283935

Dewey Decimal

940.54/2528

Intended Audience

Trade

Dewey Edition

Illustrated

Yes

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