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Author : Joyce Faulkner
Publisher : Red Engine Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 2005-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0974565202
Seven young men grow up in the US. During WWII, they l become Marines and all meet at Iwo Jima in a battle that changes their lives forever.
Author : Harold M. Torgersen
Publisher : Authors Unlimited
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781556660276
Author : Parker B. Albee
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 1995-01-24
Category : History
ISBN :
Provides first-hand accounts and recollections of the two flag raisings on Iwo Jima during World War II.
Author : Mitch Weiss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0698185331
The Battle of Iwo Jima, a major event in the Pacific Theater of World War II—and one of the bloodiest in United States history—began on February 19, 1945. But what happened two days earlier has largely been a footnote, until now... On February 17, Landing Craft Infantry 449 was among a dozen gunboats helping to prepare the area for their invasion two days later. U.S. military leaders thought they had weakened Japanese forces in the area so they were not expecting any action… From the towering slopes of Mount Suribachi, Japanese forces opened fire, forcing the U.S. commanders to recalculate battlefield plans. They shelled and bombed the newly discovered enemy positions. It was a move that saved countless lives two days later, when tens of thousands of Marines stormed the beach. The Heart of Hell is the untold story of the crew of Landing Craft Infantry 449. Based on 130 exclusive interviews with sailors who survived the battle, the families of the men killed in the fight, and more than 1,500 letters the sailors mailed to loved ones during their long months at sea, this is a story of duty, brotherhood, love, and courage.
Author : Hal Buell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1101205822
A dramatic photo history of the battle of Iwo Jima and the iconic picture that captured America-DVD included! On February 23, 1945, as the battle for the Japanese island stronghold of Iwo Jima raged below, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's camera captured six troops raising the Stars and Stripes on Mt. Suribachi. That photograph would go on to symbolize the Marines' valor and America's determination to win World War II. This is the story of the ten days Rosenthal spent on Iwo Jima-and how his Pulitzer-winning picture came to be. Containing over 120 combat photographs- including shots of the flag-raising by other photographers-quotes from survivors, newspapers and magazines, battle reports and Medal of Honor citations, here is a grunt's eye view of the bloodiest battle in U.S. Marine Corps history. It also recounts "the photograph's" enduring legacy in popular culture, and reveals the fates of the flag raisers- men who became a fixture in their country's history.
Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756543959
"Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Joe Rosenthal photograph"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Ivon Blum
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1478719257
Navajo code talker and U.S. Marine, Talking Boy Gorman, lies wounded and alone as the WWII fight for Iwo Jima explodes all around. Pain drives his urgent need to discover why Vargas, his own bodyguard, tries to kill him. He remembers the frequently told stories of his great grandparents, Juanito and Hunts Quail, and how Juanito’s half-brother and mortal enemy murdered Hunts Quail just as she gave life to his own grandfather on the Long Walk. In the morphine haze, Talking Boy hears these same old stories of the Navajo Nation during the U.S. army’s recent attempts to exterminate an entire people. He tries to imitate Juanito’s mountain cry, “I shall surrender never!” but knows that, by joining the marines, somehow, he’s already given up something sacred. In a letter in his mind he asks his sweetheart, Penny Joe, “how come I change flags so easily?” Talking Boy radios his Indian language code which helps save a nation at war and hears the sing-song words among flying bombs and bullets. He faces Varga’s revenge and unravels the mystery of family hate. In the end, he discovers the secret which drives him and all of the Navajo Code Talkers to war. “With Code Talker Ivon Blum tells the largely unsung story of bilingual heroes and WWII—draftees of the much-maligned Navajo nation who used their own tongue to transmit top-secret battlefield messages to outwit Japanese forces. Blum’s compelling characters keep the action coming and the suspense high while weaving in Navajo history, life and spiritual beliefs.” Vicki Leon, author of 40 books of historical detection, including 4000 Years of Uppity Women and 2013’s The Joy of Sexus—.
Author : Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1793634963
Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II explores how war has been portrayed in the United States since World War II, with a particular focus on an emotionally charged but rarely scrutinized topic: combat death. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that most stories about war use three main building blocks: melodrama, adventure, and horror. Monnet examines how melodrama and adventure have helped make war seem acceptable to the American public by portraying combat death as a meaningful sacrifice and by making military killing look necessary and often even pleasurable. Horror no longer serves its traditional purpose of making the bloody realities of war repulsive, but has instead been repurposed in recent years to intensify the positivity of melodrama and adventure. Thus this book offers a fascinating diagnosis of how war stories perform ideological and emotional work and why they have such a powerful grip on the American imagination.
Author : Charles Jones
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2010-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0811744434
Story of how military photographers got their shots while storming beaches and assaulting pillboxes with combat troops.
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439129576
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn protrait of a twentieth-century hero. In this work of great originality—the biography of an idea—Garry Wills shows how John Wayne came to embody Amercian values and influenced our cultoure to a degree unmatched by any other public figure of his time. In Wills's hands, Waynes story is tranformed into a compelling narrative about the intersection of popular entertainment and political realities in mid-twentieth-century America.