Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
by:
James Bradley (author)
This acclaimed bestseller brilliantly illuminates a hidden piece of World War II history as it tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific. One of them, George H. W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. The fate of the others-an explosive 60-year-old secret-is...
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This acclaimed bestseller brilliantly illuminates a hidden piece of World War II history as it tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific. One of them, George H. W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. The fate of the others-an explosive 60-year-old secret-is revealed for the first time in FLYBOYS.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316159432 (0316159433)
ASIN: 316159433
Publish date: September 14th 2004
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
War,
Military,
American History,
Asia,
World War II,
Japan,
Military History
James Bradley, son of one of the six Marines raising the American flag in the iconic Iwo Jima picture, and author of the 2000 [b:Flags of Our Fathers|10058|Flags of Our Fathers|James Bradley|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1333578755s/10058.jpg|2618496] and 2009 [b:The Imperial Cruise|645...
I tried to read [b:Flyboys: A True Story of Courage|202146|Flyboys A True Story of Courage|James Bradley|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1344264029s/202146.jpg|22829] twice before and always stopped when the author tells the story of a Japanese soldier who rapes and kills a young girl after he kills t...
This is a searing look at the War in the Pacific. James Bradley (author of Flags of our Fathers) writes as an American who clearly has a great deal of love and pride for his country, but is too intellectually honest to look away from our hypocritical record. This is not a book that presents World Wa...
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