So sad to fall in battle : an account of war : based on General Tadamichi Kurayashi's letters from Iwo Jima

So sad to fall in battle : an account of war : based on General Tadamichi Kurayashi's letters from Iwo Jima /

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The Battle of Iwo Jima has been memorialized innumerable times in countless books and motion pictures, and the famous wartime photo of the image of Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi. Yet most Americans know only one side of this pivotal and bloody battle. So Sad to Fall in Battle shows us...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kakehashi, Kumiko, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Japanese
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, [2007]
Edition:Presidio Press hardcover edition ; First edition.
Subjects:
Kuribayashi, Tadamichi, > 1890 or 1891-1945.
Kuribayashi, Tadamichi, > 1890 or 1891-1945 > Correspondence.
Japan. > Rikugun > Officers > Biography.
Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945.
Personal correspondence.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Leaving for the front
  • 22km2 of wilderness
  • The strategy
  • Resolve
  • Family
  • The American invasion
  • The island where you walk on the dead
  • The soldiers' letters
  • The battle
  • The end.
  • Epilogue.

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