Author: Breanne Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732003071
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
"Investigating Iwo encourages us to explore the connection between American visual culture and World War II, particularly how the image inspired Marines, servicemembers, and civilians to carry on with the war and to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure victory over the Axis Powers. Chapters shed light on the processes through which history becomes memory and gains meaning over time. The contributors ask only that we be willing to take a closer look, to remain open to new perspectives that can deepen our understanding of familiar topics related to the flag raising, including Rosenthal's famous picture, that continue to mean so much to us today"--
Investigating Iwo
Author: Breanne Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732003071
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
"Investigating Iwo encourages us to explore the connection between American visual culture and World War II, particularly how the image inspired Marines, servicemembers, and civilians to carry on with the war and to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure victory over the Axis Powers. Chapters shed light on the processes through which history becomes memory and gains meaning over time. The contributors ask only that we be willing to take a closer look, to remain open to new perspectives that can deepen our understanding of familiar topics related to the flag raising, including Rosenthal's famous picture, that continue to mean so much to us today"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732003071
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
"Investigating Iwo encourages us to explore the connection between American visual culture and World War II, particularly how the image inspired Marines, servicemembers, and civilians to carry on with the war and to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure victory over the Axis Powers. Chapters shed light on the processes through which history becomes memory and gains meaning over time. The contributors ask only that we be willing to take a closer look, to remain open to new perspectives that can deepen our understanding of familiar topics related to the flag raising, including Rosenthal's famous picture, that continue to mean so much to us today"--
Flags of Our Fathers
Author: James Bradley
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553902768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima—and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island—an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man. But perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo—three were killed during the battle—were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: “The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back. ” Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553902768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima—and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island—an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man. But perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo—three were killed during the battle—were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: “The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back. ” Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.
Investigation of Communist Activities New York Area
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Investigation of un-American propaganda activities in the United States. Testimony of Walter S. Steele regarding Communist activities in the United States. Testimony of Victor A. Kravchenko. Hearings regarding
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Investigation of Communist Activities in the Newark, N.J., Area
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Investigation of Nonlinear Control Systems: Piecewise linear methods and absolute stability
Author: Nicolai Minorsky
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automatic control
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automatic control
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Investigation of the National Defense Program
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial mobilization
Languages : en
Pages : 2480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial mobilization
Languages : en
Pages : 2480
Book Description
Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Special committee on un-American activities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States, Vol 3
Author: United States. Congress. House. Un-American Activities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2138
Book Description