The Lions of Iwo Jima

A WWII veteran presents an “intense, moving account” of the battle for Iwo Jima: “the harsh face of war . . . has rarely bee portrayed so effectively” ( Booklist ). Combat Team twenty-eight, one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February nineteen, 1945. The unit, four, 500 men strong, plunged immediately into ferocious combat, which continued long after the iconic flag-raising on Mount Suribachi. In the end, seventy percent