When nine US Navy and Marine airmen were shot down over the remote island of Chichi Jima in September 1944, one was rescued by US submarine. Young Avenger pilot George Bush would much later become American president. A terrible fate awaited the rest at the hands of the Japanese, so shocking as to be subsequently covered up by both the US and Japan, even from the mean's own families. To make sense of this horrifying episode, whose mystery he solves after nearly sixty years, James Bradley has to chronicle the history of the whole Pacific War, tracing its brutalised conflict far back to their first encounter some 150 years ago, through the savage Japanese warrior mentality to America's hellish firebombing of civilians in Tokyo. A masterpiece of historical narrative to follow his triumphant portrait of the men who raised the flag on lwo Jima, Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys will change for ever our understanding of the Pacific War.
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James Bradley is the son of one of the Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima. He lives in New York.
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(Subject: Aviation - World War II ) Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers and held prisoner. Then they disappeared. The author reveals the extraordinary story of those men,including the tale of the Flyboy who escaped capture, a young Navy pilot named George H. W. Bush who would one day become president of the United States. (Published: 2005) (Publisher: Aurum Press) (ISBN: 184513060X) (Pagination: 398pp) (Condition: Very good in card covers) UL-XXXXXX. Nº de ref. del artículo: 38030-01
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