A collection of eyewitness accounts captures the human drama, heroism, and sacrifice of the assault on Nazi-occupied France, accompanied by personal artifacts, historical and modern photographs, and war artists' paintings.

"FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS brings readers into the lives of the six young men--boys, really--who marched up the side of Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima & raised a flag. That moment, captured for all time in an iconic photograph, is only a part of their stories; author Bradley reveals what each man's life was before, & after, that moment. Teenagers when the war struck, each soldier's odyssey is recounted, & the whole is a stunningly powerful tribute...

This handsome commemorative volume contains hundreds of Allied and German photographs, many never seen before by the general public. Written by the coauthors of Gordon W. Prange's acclaimed bestsellers At Dawn We Slept and Miracle at Midway, D-Day Normandy is in the tradition of their highly successful pictorial, The Way It Was: Pearl Harbor. With text keyed to photos on the same page, it leads the reader through the dramatic experiences of D-Day...

James Bradley examines the lives of the six young men who raised the American flag over Iwo Jima in February 1945 and were immortalized by a famous photograph--one of whom was Bradley's father.