Flyboys

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• Flyboys By James Bradley

  In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley chronicled the lives of the six soldiers his father among them who famously raised the flag on Iwo Jima. With his new book Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, he returns to the same war and the same region of the ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

• Flyboys: A True Story of Courage By James Bradley

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  bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  I think this book was talked up too much for me, but still worth reading. It's an incredible true story about some airmen in World War II and their capture by the Japanese. It was fascinating, informative, and a little depressing all at the same time. More of a story of how low humanity can sink ... (continue)

  I think this book was talked up too much for me, but still worth reading. It's an incredible true story about some airmen in World War II and their capture by the Japanese. It was fascinating, informative, and a little depressing all at the same time. More of a story of how low humanity can sink rather than how high we can reach (although it does have aspects of the latter as well).

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  Victory is built on the miseries of both warring sides.

  I don't understand why the author referred all American airmen just as Flyboys instead of telling the readers those airmen's ranks before their surnames.

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  Harris said on Jul 18, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 464 Pages
• Edition: Reprint
• ISBN-10: 0316159433
• ISBN-13: 9780316159432
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Pub date: Sep 14, 2004
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others

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