Analyzes the multinational conflicts that set the stage for World War II, the Chinese communist revolution, and the Korean War, documenting Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 diplomatic mission in the Pacific through which the United States forged ill-fated covert agreements.
Written by the son of one of the soldiers, this book follows the life stories of the six Marines who raised the American Flag in February 1945, on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi.