Now in paperback comes the momentous tale of the Pacific war, told through dramatic, poignant, and unforgettable stories of nine heroic Americans (Michael Beschloss, author of The Conquerors).
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It is about how we die, and how we live-including the tale of the Flyboy who escaped capture, a young Navy pilot named George H.
Flyboys is a Story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor.
And, after almost sixty years of mystery, Bradley finally reveals the fate of the eight American Flyboys, all of whom would ultimately face a moment and a decision that few of us can even imagine. military strategy that justified attacks on millions of civilians.
With no easy moralizing, Bradley presents hiStory in all its savage complexity, including the Japanese warrior mentality that fostered inhuman brutality and the U.
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Bradley brings into vivid focus these brave young men who went to war for their country, and through their lives he also tells the larger Story of two nations in a hellish war.
What he discovered was a mystery that dated back far before World War II-back 150 years, to America\'s westward expansion and Japan\'s first confrontation with the western world.
Bradley\'s quest for the truth took him from dusty attics in American small towns, to untapped government archives containing classified documents, to the heart of Japan, and finally to Chichi Jima itself.
Flyboys reveals for the first time ever the extraordinary Story of those men.
The records of a top-secret military tribunal were sealed, the lives of the eight Flyboys were erased, and the parents, brothers, sisters, and sweethearts they left behind were left to wonder.
When the war was over, the American government, along with the Japanese, covered up everything that had happened on Chichi Jima.
Then they disappeared.
The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner.
Navy submarine.
One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.
S.
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down.
Flyboys, a Story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the Story of those men.
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down.
Now in paperback comes the momentous tale of the Pacific war, told through dramatic, poignant, and unforgettable stories of nine heroic Americans (Michael Beschloss, author of The Conquerors)
