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Originally Posted by homeboy
Undaunted Courage is awesome. Highly recommended.
So, what is your final analysis of Flags of Our Fathers?
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I really liked it. I've read a lot of WWII books and though it wasn't my favorite, I am anxious to see what kind of treatment Clint Eastwood is going to give it. They're doing 2 films. One from the American perspective and one from the Japanese perspective.
The book about WWII that affected me the most was Ghost Soldiers. It's about the survivors of the Bataan Death March, and those put in a Japanese POW camp. The pure savagery of the Japanese in the war was so beyond appalling it's not worth repeating, but the mental images are burned in my head. The things they did to our soldiers. Unspeakable.
That book left indelible sketches in my mind.