<![CDATA[Flags of Our Fathers]]>

false <![CDATA[Flags of Our Fathers]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180020208m/986892.jpg 10058 29 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 of recent books on World War II, Flags gives a you-are-there depiction of that conflict's horrible arenas--and a moving homage to the men whom fate brought there. --Gregory McNamee 2618496 2000 Flags of Our Fathers total:2500|5:985|4:999|3:432|2:71|1:13| 2500 10372 3345 474 4 3 false false Wed Feb 06 17:43:32 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 15:32:03 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 17:43:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Mar 09 16:12:54 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 16:53:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 09:05:49 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 10:03:03 -0700 2007
This is a riveting narrative about the six young American flag raisers in the famed picture. Author James Bradley is the son of c...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 18:10:24 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 15:49:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 29 12:26:27 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 13:02:42 -0800 2009
James Bradley's book is a masterpiece of historical writing that will not wear down readers with heavy language or intimidate with hundreds of pages. This is a biography written about the five men who raised the United States flag on Mount Suribachi on the Japanese island of I...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 22 14:15:02 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 14:15:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 06 10:19:04 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 15:15:36 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 10:19:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 15 17:31:30 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 20:21:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 18 11:15:32 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 11:05:34 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 11:15:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 20:49:25 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 19:14:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 28 09:06:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 19:53:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 17:30:01 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 15:09:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 16 19:53:06 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 20:30:53 -0700 2009 I loved reading of the process of how this story came to be, and the research involved, as James Bradley...more...]]> 0 1 true false Wed Jan 23 14:23:52 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 14:37:19 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 24 23:26:21 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 23:34:23 -0700 2009
I especially liked all the detail surrounding the action on Iwo Jima and how tha...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 11:24:24 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 11:43:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 11 00:25:05 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 00:33:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 20:12:43 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 15:07:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 07 21:28:34 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 27 16:54:06 -0700 2009
John "Doc" Bradley, a ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 22 10:07:45 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 16 21:29:40 -0800 2009 I have read a lot of *war epic* books. This book does not follow the "traditional" format of a *war epic*. This book is about World War II -- specifically about the battle of Iwo Jima and the famous "flag-raising" photograph -- but it definitely has the "feel" of a bo...

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