Unknown valor : a story of family, courage, and sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima /
On Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest and most brutal battles of World War II, nearly 7,000 Marines were killed and 22,000 were wounded in thirty-six grueling days. MacCallum takes us from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima through the lives of these men of valor. Among them is Harry Gray, a member of her own fam...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Arlington, Massachusetts, 1938
- Infamy
- Outrage
- The changing tide
- What Hirohito knew
- The first step : say a prayer for your pal on Guadalcanal
- 1943
- Cracking the inner ring
- Willing to fight
- D-Day : from Normandy to Saipan
- Japan's doorstep
- "A ghastly relentlessness"
- "An island of sulphur : no water, no sparrow, and no swallow"
- "Hell with the fire out"
- The badlands.