Flags of Our Fathers
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- For the 2006 film, see Flags of Our Fathers (film).
Flags of Our Fathers (2000) is the New York Times-bestselling book by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the five United States Marines and one United States Navy Corpsman (Medic) who would eventually be made famous by Joe Rosenthal's lauded photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, one of the costliest battles of World War II's Pacific Theater. One of the flag raisers was John Bradley, a Navy corpsman, and the coauthor's father.
The book, published in May 2000 by Bantam Books, a division of Random House, spent 46 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, spending six weeks at number one. Shortly after the book's publication, Steven Spielberg optioned the film rights for DreamWorks Pictures.
The book follows the lives of the six flagraisers throughout training, combat and after.
The film adaptation Flags of Our Fathers, which opened in the U.S. on October 20, 2006, was directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis.
[edit] References
- Bradley, James & Powers, Ron Flags of Our Fathers. Bantam, 2000.
- Hardcover, Bantam, 2000, ISBN 0553111337
- Paperback, Bantam, 2001, ISBN 055338029X
- Mass market paperback, Bantam, 2006, ISBN 0553589083
- Japanese translation, Bungeishunju, 2002, ISBN 4167651173
