Review Of Flags Of Our Fathers By James Bradley

Flags of Our Fathers, written by James Bradley along with Ron Powers, are one of the unforgettable chronicles of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history. The author has managed to capture the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. In order to summarize the book, Flags of Our Fathers it is important to keep in mind about the contributions author has made, the purpose as defined by the author, and also the central theme along which the entire book is structured upon.

To begin with, the author James Bradley was born in Wisconsin surrounded by a loving family of many people. Bradley had always been inclined towards reading and writing from a very tender age about

Upon the death of Bradley’s father in 1994, James found a letter his father had written to his parents from Iwo Jima, calling the flag raising as one of the astonishing moment of his life. Thereafter, James decided to start writing his first published book. The research towards his book was quite an extensive one. The novel, Flags of Our Fathers, provides complex details regarding US marine’s men and a single US Navy Corpsman responsible for raising the US flag at Iwo Jima. Flags of Our Fathers capture a treasured moment within history. Additionally, book offers information regarding the six flag raisers and their lives from their innocent upbringing to their military vocation. Thus, an analysis of the Flags of Our Fathers gives the reader a detailed account of the battle fought at Iwo Jima during the World War II. In his book, Bradley is fond of utilizing brief and categorical sentences as well as fragments of sentences in order to provide a thorough account and initiate direct address. The author provides an emotional description of the battle and Bradley has also used intricate details about the mothers, religious faith, the tension underlying between boyhood and manhood, heroism, media, individuals vs. country, and differences between perception and

This was two days after the Marines landed on Iwo Jima, stated as one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, five Marines and one Navy Corpsman places a replacement flag on top of Mt. Suribachi (Jarret, Pg.1). Furthermore, the author provides a chapter breakdown of the novel, where each chapter depicts incidents that took place during the battle. For instance, Jinger Jarret states that in Chapter 1, Bradley tells about his extraordinary trip to Iwo Jima to place a memorial to his father, John Bradley, the Navy Corpsman in the photo. Then moving forward to Chapter 2, Bradley gives an insight of the six men involved in raising the flag. Additionally, Chapters 3 to 14 cover the events leading up to that fateful day, beginning with six men deciding to join the military (Jarret, Pg. 1). Jinger Jarret also states in her book review of the Flags of Our Fathers, that the book is about great events as well about personal story of how men learnt to cope with the most horrific