Flyboys The Final Secret of the Air War in the Pacific

When nine US Navy and Marine airmen were shot down over the remote island ofhichi Jima in September 1944, one was rescued by US submarine. Young Avengerilot George Bush would much later become American president. A terrible fatewaited the rest at the hands of the Japanese, so shocking as to beubsequently covered up by both the US and Japan, even from the mean's ownamilies. To make sense of this horrifying episode, whose mystery he solvesfter nearly sixty years, James Bradley has to chronicle the history of thehole Pacific War, tracing its brutalised conflict far back to their firstncounter some 150 years ago, through the savage Japanese warrior mentalityo America's hellish firebombing of civilians in Tokyo. A masterpiece ofistorical narrative to follow his triumphant portrait of the men who raisedhe flag on lwo Jima, Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys will change for ever ournderstanding of the Pacific War.