num_pages: 214
description: Letters from Iwo Jima reveals the true story of the battle of Iwo Jima. At the heart of this story is the maverick general Tadamichi Kuriyabashi, devoted family man, brilliant leader and the first man on the island to know they were all going to die. Kumiko Kakehashi's heart rending account is based on letters written home by the doomed soldiers on the island, most family men, conscripted late in the war. She reveals a very different Japanese army from the popular image. It is an incredibly moving portrayal of men determined to resist to the last breath.
language: English
title: Letters From Iwo Jima
titlecomplete: Letters From Iwo Jima
genres: Japan, Nonfiction, Military History, Japanese History, Biography, Military Fiction, War, Japanese Literature, History, World War II
ratings_count: 922
places: Iwo Jima
publisher: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON