Name: Flags of Our Fathers
ISBN: 9780553384154

James Bradley

Ron Powers

Flags of Our Fathers

Rishaan Desai

Jeni Enjaian

A review from my old blog...

Flags of Our Fathers appealed to the writer in me. I've often wondered about the lives of people that I pass on the street or that I see in photos on the wall. I couldn't put down the book because I wanted to know all of the details about the lives of these six men united in history by 1/400th of a second. These men were so ordinary, almost like characters I would create in my head...ordinary yet extraordinary. Bradley's writing style is very similar to McCullough's...a storyteller...yet I still prefer McCullough probably because of his historical expertise.

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In this remarkably powerful book, James Bradley takes as his starting point one of the most famous photographs of all time. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima and into a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire from 22,000 Japanese. After climbing through a hellish landscape and on to the island's highest peak, six men were photographed raising the stars and stripes. One of those soldiers was the author's father, John Bradley. He never spoke to his family about the photograph or about the war, but after his death in 1994, they discovered closed boxes of letters and photos which James Bradley draws on to retrace the lives of his father and his five companions. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island - an island riddled with sixteen miles of tunnels and defended by Japanese soldiers determined to fight to the death. In the thirty-six days of fighting, almost fifty-thousand men lost their lives. Above all a human - and personal - story, few books have captured so brilliantly or so movingly the complexity of war and its aftermath and the true meaning of heroism.

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