Uncommon valor, common virtue : Iwo Jima and the photograph that captured America / Hal Buell.

Title on videodisc label: Iwo Jima, uncommon valor, common virtue

Berkley Caliber hardcover ed.

9780425209806
0425209806

New York : Berkley Pub. Group/Penguin Group, c2006.

English

xi, 258 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. + 1 videodisc (DVD : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.)

D767.99.I9 B84 2006

940.54/2528

An in-depth account of the World War II battle of Iwo Jima, immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, describes the events of the battle between U.S. Marines and Japanese forces, as well as Rosenthal's ten days on Iwo Jima during the conflict, in a narrative complemented by more than 120 archival combat photographs.

Includes index.
"A Berkley Caliber Book."
Videodisc is a Lou Reda Productions, Inc.
Produced by Sammy Jackson, Mort Zimmerman, Tracey A. Connor ; written by Col. Joe Alexander, Norman Stahl.
Narrator, Fritz Weaver.

Executive producers, Lou Reda, Scott Reda ; edited by Tracey A. Connor ; photo consultant, Hal Buell.

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