iwo jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima by Mark Khan Iwo Jima is probably the most famous battle in the Pacific theatre in World War Two. It gave birth to one of the world’s most iconic photos – that of US Marines raising the US flag on Mount Suribachi, signalling the end of that brutal campaign. That, along...

Two Flags Over Iwo Jima covers a very distinct moment in the fighting on Iwo Jima: the iconic flag raising on Mount Suribachi. The author, Eric Hammel, has pulled together a superb description of the fighting around Suribachi and the flag raising, the US Marines involved and then the subsequent...