Flyboys : The Final Secret of the Air War in the Pacific - Softcover
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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FLYBOYS, the story of the U.S. air campaign against Japan during WWII, is told in exacting detail by James Bradley, author of FLAG OF OUR FATHERS. In this biography, Bradley describes the Japanese military mind and attitude toward foreigners and tells of their actions toward their own soldiers and the men they captured during the war. Bradley reads his work in a matter-of-fact tone, never emphasizing or downplaying the atrocities on either side of the war. The graphic, horrific details of Japanese torture, mutilation, murder, and cannibalism are recited calmly and succinctly by Bradley, as are the detailed results of America's bombing of Japan. M.B.K. 2004 Audie Award Finalist © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherAurum Press Ltd
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 184513060X
- ISBN 13 9781845130602
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Book Description (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. Seller Inventory # 38030-01
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