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Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor

Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor

by Bill D. Ross
Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor

Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor

by Bill D. Ross

Overview

An hour by hour account of the largest and most brutal assault ever conducted by the Marine Corps.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780394742885
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/12/1986
Pages: 448
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.05(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Bill D. Ross was a World War II combat correspondent and the author of Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor and Peleliu: Tragic Triumph. He died in 1994.

Table of Contents

Author's Notexiii
1Prologue to Invasion1
2A Gathering of Warriors23
3D-Day: Curtain Time in Hell57
4The Men of Suribachi and Two Flags83
5Brave Men in Navy Blue113
6Five Days of Carnage131
7Of the Living ... and the Dead175
8Halfway to Victory207
9Stalemate and Breakthrough287
10The Final Phase319
11Epilogue339
Acknowledgments and Postcript361
Bibliography367
Index371
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Related Subjects

History
Military History
World War II
Pacific Theater - World War II - Campaigns & Individual Battles
History
Military History
World War II
Pacific Theater - World War II - Campaigns & Individual Battles

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