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Bradley, James; Powers, Ron Flags Of Our Fathers
Bantam Books 2006 0553589342 / 9780553589344 Mass Market Paperback Near-fine
Near-fine condition. Movie tie-in edition (September 2006). NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. Illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Covers show light wear (NO tears). 567 pages. Synopsis: 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... Annotation: In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of his 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. Publishers Weekly: Say "Iwo Jima," and what comes to mind? Most likely a famous photograph from 1945: six tired, helmeted Marines, fresh from a long, terrifying and bloody battle, work together to raise the American flag on Mount Suribachi. Bradley's father, John, was one of the six. In this voluminous and memorable work of popular history mixed with memoir, Bradley and Powers (White Town Drowsing) reconstruct those Marines' experiences, and those of their Pacific Theater comrades. The authors begin with the six soldiers' childhoods. Soon enough, bombs have fallen on Pearl Harbor, and by May '43 the young men have become proud leathernecks. Bradley and Powers incorporate accounts of specific battles, like "Hellzapoppin Ridge" (Bougainville, December '43), and pull in corps life and lore, from the tough-minded to the slightly silly, from mandatory penis inspections (medics checking for VD) to life in the pitch-dark of "Tent City No. 1." And they cover the strategy and tactics leading up to the awful battle for the island--the navy's disputed plans for offshore bombardment, cut at the last minute from 10 days to three; the 16 miles of Japanese underground tunnels, far more than Allied intelligence expected. A quarter of the book follows the fighting on Iwo Jima, sortie by sortie. The final chapters pursue the veterans' subsequent lives: Bradley and Powers set themselves against often-sanctimonious tradition, retrieving the stories of six more or less troubled individuals from the anonymity of heroic myth. A simple thesis emerges from all the detail worked into this touching group portrait, in a comment by John Bradley: "The heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who didn't come back."
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Powers, Ron White Town Drowsing: Journeys To Hannibal
The Atlantic Monthly Press 1986 087113103x / 9780871131034 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Dustcover has 3 small, closed tears - Book is in Fine Condition - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $17.95 - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - 313 pages - The title is from Mark Twain's recollection of Hannibal, Missouri, which he left at 17, Powers's age when he left there in 1959. Powers's quite different memories of Hannibal haunted him until, in 1985, he began returning from his New York world of television news to see if the town still generated the same values and assumptions it had in his childhood. It was the Twain sesquicentennial year, and Powers chronicles both the failed attempts by ``outside'' promoters to develop a seven-month celebration and the more modest success mounted by the townspeople themselves. This is a beautifully written account of examining one's roots; of an aging, shrinking river town; of memories versus ongoing experience; of peopleand especially of the author and the town's coming to grips with the past and moving on.
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