Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific
A vivid and compelling account by a true master of oral history.” —General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret.), Supreme Allied Commander, EuropeOn February 19, 1945, nearly 70,000 American marines invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately 28,000 combatants died, including nearly 22,000 Japanese and 6,821 Americans, making Iwo Jima one of the costliest battles of World War II. Bestselling author Larry Smith lets twenty-two veterans tell the story of this epic clash in their own words; the result is a superb and fascinating work by one of our nation's leading oral historians” (Jay Winik, author of Apri…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-28563-5
- EAN: 9780393285635
- Produktnummer: 34248077
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'223 KB
- Abbildungen: 50 photos, 2 maps
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Larry Smith is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Few and the Proud and Beyond Glory. The latter was adapted into a major Broadway play by Stephen Lang. Smith lives in South Norwalk, Connecticut.
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