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The Battle for Iwo Jima
Robert Leckie

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The Battle for Iwo Jima

Random House (1967)
9780394904184
| Hardcover
173 pages | USA | English
Dewey 940.542528

Genre

  • History

Subject

  • Empire of Japan, 1868-1947
  • Pacific Theater of World War II
  • World War II, 1939-1945

Plot

Iwo Jima is one of the most famous battles in World War II, and the greatest battle fought by the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. From that battle came the most famous image of the war, the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi. Robert Leckie, the bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow has written an extraordinary story of one of th bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history.