Flags of our Fathers

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 battle 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 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, 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.