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Uncommon valor, common virtue : Iwo Jima and the photograph that captured America

Hal Buell
An in-depth account of the World War II battle of Iwo Jima, immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, describes the events of the battle between U.S. Marines and Japanese forces, as well as Rosenthal's ten days on Iwo Jima during the conflict, in a narrative complemented by more than 120 archival combat photographs

Print Book, English, ©2006
Berkley Pub. Group/Penguin Group, New York, ©2006