Author: Max Egremont
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780297813477
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Author: Gordon Levett
Publisher: Frank Cass & Company
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780714641027
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Bradley
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2006-08-29
Total Pages: 602
ISBN-13: 0553902768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. 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 flagraisers 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 lives of his father and the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island—an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man. But perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo—three were killed during the battle—were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: “The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back. ” Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.
Author: John Hamill
Publisher:
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781497806726
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Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-01-17
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0307946762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The complete text of Faulkner’s third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris.
Author: Juris Jurjevics
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0547564511
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Author: Lonely Planet Kids
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Published: 2019-09-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1788686543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Did you know that flags are actually pictures that send a message to everyone who sees them? In The Flag Book you'll uncover the hidden meanings of flags- from country and state colours to flags used in sports, on ships and aeroplanes, and by the most dastardly of Caribbean pirates.
Author: David Cordingly
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-02-06
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0307763072
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Author: Tim Marshall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-07-04
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1501168339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Elliott and Thompson Limited as: Worth dying for: the power and politics of flags.