Iwo Jima

It's only a tiny atoll some 700 miles from the Japanese capital, but it was considered vital to the war effort in the Pacific. On February 19, 1945, six months before the war's end, the largest Marine force ever sent into battle, backed by the greatest fighting fleet ever assembled in those waters, [...]
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It's only a tiny atoll some 700 miles from the Japanese capital, but it was considered vital to the war effort in the Pacific. On February 19, 1945, six months before the war's end, the largest Marine force ever sent into battle, backed by the greatest fighting fleet ever assembled in those waters, launched a bloody assault on Iwo Jima.The brutal, five-week campaign that followed was one of the costliest (more than 5,000 lives lost). To most, the battle was a famous photograph of a flag-raising, but to the men of the Fifth Amphibious Corps, it was closure to a matter of life and death. Richard Newcomb recounts the drama and strategies from both Japanese and American perspectives. Above all, it's a story of remarkable heroism."Nothing less than a hymn to the valor which did, in fact, conquer." (The New York Times)