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Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers—Navy and Marine airmen sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there—were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared.
When the war was over, the American government, along with the Japanese, covered up everything that had happened on Chichi Jima. The records of a top-secret military tribunal were sealed, the lives of the eight Flyboys were erased, and the parents, brothers, sisters, and sweethearts they left behind were left to wonder. Flyboys reveals for the first time ever the extraordinary story of those men. Bradley’s quest for the truth leads him to discover a mystery that dated back far before World War II—back 150 years, to America’s westward expansion and Japan’s first confrontation with the western world.
With no easy moralizing, Bradley presents history in all its savage complexity, including the Japanese warrior mentality that fostered inhuman brutality and the U.S. military strategy that justified attacks on millions of civilians. And, after almost sixty years of mystery, Bradley finally reveals the fate of the eight American Flyboys, all of whom would ultimately face a moment and a decision that few of us can even imagine.
Flyboys is a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor. It is about how we die, and how we live—including the tale of the Flyboy who escaped capture, a young Navy pilot named George H. W. Bush, who would one day become president of the United States. A masterpiece of historical narrative, Flyboys will change forever our understanding of the Pacific war and the very things we fight for.
BomberWritten By : Len DeightonNarrated By : Full Cast ProductionPublished By : BBC Audiobooks LtdRuntime : 3 hours 40 minutesCategories : 20th Century
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Lone SurvivorWritten By : Marcus LuttrellNarrated By : Kevin T. CollinsPublished By : Hachette AudioRuntime : 6 hoursCategories : Military
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No Room for ErrorWritten By : John T Carney and Benjamin F SchemmerNarrated By : Barrett WhitenerPublished By : Listen & LiveRuntime : 4 hours 30 minutesCategories : Military
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Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign that Decided the Civil WarWritten By : Jack HurstNarrated By : Tom WeinerPublished By : Blackstone Audio IncRuntime : 13 hours 30 minutesCategories : MilitaryPrice : $49.95 $26.95
The Forts Henry and Donelson campaign, the first decisive Union victory, fought on the western edge of the theater, was a gruesome omen of what was to come in the battle between two great men: U.S. Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest. More info...
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Long Walk, The: The True Story of a Trek to FreedomWritten By : Slavomir RawiczNarrated By : John LeePublished By : Blackstone Audio IncRuntime : 9 hours 30 minutesCategories : MilitaryPrice : $19.95
In 1941, seven escapees of a Soviet labor camp in Siberia spent a year walking to freedom over four thousand miles of the most forbidding terrain on earth, always a step away from death. They had no map and no compass but only a fierce determination to survive. More info...
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