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　　The Battle of Iwo Jima, fought in the winter of 1945 on a

rocky island south of Japan, brought a ferocious slice of hell to

earth: in a month's time, more than 22,000 Japanese soldiers would

die defending a patch of ground a third the size of Manhattan,

while nearly 26,000 Americans fell taking it from them. The battle

was a turning point in the war in the Pacific, and it produced one

of World War II's enduring images: a photograph of six soldiers

raising an American flag on the flank of Mount Suribachi, the

island's commanding high point.

One of those young Americans was John Bradley, a Navy corpsman

who a few days before had braved enemy mortar and machine-gun fire

to administer first aid to a wounded Marine and then drag him to

safety. For this act of heroism Bradley would receive the Navy

Cross, an award second only to the Medal of Honor.

Bradley, who died in 1994, never mentioned his feat to his

family. Only after his death did Bradley's son James begin to piece

together the facts of his father's heroism, which was but one of

countless acts of sacrifice made by the young men who fought at Iwo

Jima. Flags of Our Fathers recounts the sometimes tragic life

stories of the six men who raised the flag that February day--one

an Arizona Indian who would die following an alcohol-soaked brawl,

another a Kentucky hillbilly, still another a Pennsylvania

steel-mill worker--and who became reluctant heroes in the bargain.

A strongly felt and well-written entry in a spate of recent books

on World War II, Flags gives a you-are-there depiction of that

conflict's horrible arenas--and a moving homage to the men whom

fate brought there. --Gregory McNamee --This text refers to the

Hardcover edition.

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　　James Bradley is the son of John "Doc" Bradley, one of the six

flagraisers. A speaker and a writer, he lives in Rye, New York.

　　Ron Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He is the

author of White Town Drowsing and Dangerous Water: A Biography of

the Boy Who Became Mark Twain. He lives in Vermont.

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父亲在回国以后没有继续那场战斗。

那么答案是什么，后来发生了什么呢？

我已经开始相信那答案可能不那么复杂，也不那么神秘，就像父亲本人一样。我认为我父亲保持沉默的原因是和第二次世界大战当中——或任何战争——经历过战斗场面的人是一样的。因为整个经历简直是太过痛苦而不能用语言表述。

名人追求声望。他们是为了引起注意去做事。他们做出的事经常没有实质性的道德内容。英雄之所以成为英雄，是因为他们要冒着一定的危险去帮助别人。他们的所作所为表现出来的是勇敢无畏。通常地，这些英雄们视公众的注意为无关紧要。但至少，英雄们能够理解感情的焦点。无论他是看重还是看低自己的功劳，功绩始终还是功绩。

书籍介绍

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.

From the Hardcover edition.