Flags of our fathers
Record details
- ISBN: 9781415944752 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 141594475X (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
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electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Santa Ana, Calif.] : Books on Tape, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 13:25:36. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Stephen Hoye. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 193022 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945 Photographs -- History -- 20th century World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography Marines -- United States -- Biography United States. -- Marine Corps -- Biography |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
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 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.