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Three Flags and Two Brothers : To War and Back by Holly E. Rees (2016, Trade...
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A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780979435485
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Event Horizon Publishing Group
ISBN-10
097943548X
ISBN-13
9780979435485
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038901798
Product Key Features
Book Title
Three Flags and Twobrothers : to War and Back
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Synopsis
When Holly Rees remembers his family's experiences and sacrifices during and after World War II, he sees three flags--the Blue Star banner denoting the number of his family's sons who served, the American flag folded for a funeral service, and the personal Rising Sun banner of an enemy infantryman.Like so many American brothers of their generation, Gilbert and Holly Rees joined the war effort against Imperial Japan in the Pacific. Gil, the elder, served as a Naval attack aircraft radio operator. He survived the destruction of his first carrier and finished out the war aboard another. Holly, the younger, completed his training just in time to hit the beach at Okinawa with 7th Infantry Division during the last major campaign in the Pacific. He served for 38 days of fierce, almost continuous combat until a sniper-inflicted wound ended his service career.Holly writes from a little-examined point of view, that of a fresh replacement sent directly from training into combat with a veteran infantry unit. He meticulously details, in prose, photographs, and illustrations, the machines, equipment, tactics and statistical results of the naval and infantry battles in which the brothers participated.Sixty years later, armed with the knowledge and perspective he had gained from a life lived fully and well, Holly made a poignant return journey to Okinawa, and then went on to Japan, to Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Through the photographically documented story of that pilgrimage and the revelations from the translation of the third flag--the Hinomaru Yosegoui of Tomoe Sanshi--he came to his own conclusions regarding survival, duty, the taking of human life in combat ... and the quality of forgiveness.
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