2000, ISBN: 9780756969462

The Barnes & Noble ReviewJune 2000 Flags of Our Fathers On February 23, 1945, six young men - boys, really - marched up Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima and raised an American fl… Altro …

The Barnes & Noble ReviewJune 2000 Flags of Our Fathers On February 23, 1945, six young men - boys, really - marched up Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima and raised an American flag in a gesture of freedom. Almost by accident, the moment was captured on film, becoming not only the most famous photograph taken during World War II but an image that continues to resonate throughout The Barnes & Noble ReviewJune 2000 Flags of Our Fathers On February 23, 1945, six young men - boys, really - marched up Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima and raised an American flag in a gesture of freedom. Almost by accident, the moment was captured on film, becoming not only the most famous photograph taken during World War II but an image that continues to resonate throughout history. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley - son of the last surviving flag raiser, John "Doc" Bradley - tells the story of six very different men who came together in a moment that will live forever. In a small town in Wisconsin, James Bradley grew up knowing that his father was one of the men in the famous photo. But that was all he knew - his father never spoke of the picture nor, for that matter, the war to his family. After the elder Bradley's death in 1994, his children discovered letters and photos that revealed much about their father's role in one of the grisliest battles of the Second World War, sparking a flurry of research that ultimately led to this book. Who were these boys? Hailing from tiny pockets of small-town America, their origins mirrored the broad diversity of American life. They were from the hills of Appalachian Kentucky and the Arizona desert; from idyllic small-town Wisconsin and the iron smelters of Pennsylvania; from the mills of Manchester, New Hampshire, and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Caught in time, they are a snapshot of American boyhood in the 1930s. Boys who became men as they enlisted and trained for "the fightfordemocracy," eventually thrown together by fate and the U.S. Marine Corps on a tiny little island south of Tokyo. Bradley captures the explosive battle there in all its riveting, bloody detail. On the fifth day of that battle, a photographer caught one jubilant, triumphant - and Books, History~~General, Flags-of-Our-Fathers~~James-Bradley, 787488, Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley, With Ron Powers, 0756969468, Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group, , , , , Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group<

1994, ISBN: 0756969468

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 wo… Altro …

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 o 20th century,biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,books and reading,children's,children's books,history,history and criticism Biographies, Perfection Learning<

ISBN: 0756969468

This unforgettable New York Times bestselling chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history is the inspiration behind a new film adaptation from Warner Bros. an… Altro …

This unforgettable New York Times bestselling chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history is the inspiration behind a new film adaptation from Warner Bros. and DreamWorks SKG, directed by Oscar(-winning director Clint Eastwood, opening in theaters August 4. 20th century,biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,books and reading,children's,children's books,history,history and criticism Teen & Young Adult, Perfection Learning Corporation<