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Flags of Our Fathers

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ISBN-10: 055338029X

ISBN-13: 9780553380293

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: James Bradley, Ron Powers

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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 flag-raisers 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…    
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Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/2/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Author James Bradley is the son of Doc Bradley, one of the flagraisers. He is a writer and speaker living in Westchester County, New York.

Ron Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who lives in Vermont.

Sacred Ground
All-American Boys
America's War
Call of Duty
Forging the Spearhead
Armada
D-Day
D-Day Plus One
D-Day Plus Two
D-Day Plus Three
"So Every Son of a Bitch on This Whole Cruddy Island Can See It!"
Myths
"Like Hell with the Fire Out"
Antigo
Coming Home
The Mighty 7th
A Conflict of Honor
Movies and Monuments
Casualties of War
Common Virtue
Acknowledgments
Interior Photo List and Credits
Notes
Bibliography
Index