Iwo Jima – Historical Book – Ballantine Books from Ballantine Books

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In thirty-six days of the fiercest fighting of the war, three divisions of the United States Marine Corps captured the tiny island of Iwo Jima. At the end of the battle, described by the marine commander as ‘the toughest we’ve run across in 168 years’, 6,000 marines and 22,000 Japanese defenders lay dead. Iwo Jima was clearly a strategic prize worth fighting for.