![]() ![]() If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Still, these elements blend seamlessly into a thorough account of these men's lives and help greatly to build up a clear account of the men and their experiences.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. The story itself is somewhat nostalgic, but given the fact that the author is the son of one of the men involved, this is to be expected when significant parts of the story are auto-biographical of their family. Is is certainly appropriate for any audiobook in this genre. The narrator's voice is varied and interesting, with reasonable characterisations and accents. Other reviews have criticised the narration. History as an agent of people and their own agendas, so far removed from 'facts and figures'. 'Flags of Our Fathers' brilliantly encapsulates how history and myth are created. This is an brilliant addition to any military history enthusiast's library. I have not seen the movie yet, but like any other comparison between book and movie, I know the book will be better hands down!! Isn't that why we all have a membership here at ?Įxcellent and a key book for any History LibraryĮxcellent account about real people in an unreal situation: Famous for doing something they had no idea would be seen as significant. But it told all that in a novel-like fashion about six people who happened to be caught in a photograph: their lives before, during and, for those who survived, after the war. The book gave me history: knowledge of the difficulties the soldiers faced, the differences between the war in Europe and the war in the Pacific an explanation of war financing differences and what war bonds really were and so on. But if the story became strong, he delivered strength in his voice. He expresses the emotions of the book and is a master of that! If he sounded sappy, that is because the story was sappy at that point. In fact, that was probably the decision maker as to whether I would get this book or not. But for me, I would rather see that than the opposite! How many more "Mommy Dearest" books do you need on your shelf? As for the narrator, I was thrilled to see Stephen Hoye on this title. ![]() And yes, maybe the author does idolize his father a bit heavily. It does not gloss over thier faults of human nature. When that picture was taken, they were boys. I found it fascinating and important that the author set out to discover these "boys" and why he insisted on using the term "boys" rather than men. ![]() But this book tells more than just the story of a particular battle. There are a number of sources for the horrors of the battles in the pacific, no less on Iwo Jima. This book provides us with information we have not had prior to his telling it. My memories of history lessons from school revealed nothing like the exciting, wonderful tale told in this book! The author is certainly not worthy of a Pulitzer prize, but he had a desire to find out about an event in history for which he had a personal connection. ![]()
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