Title: Great story told terribly
Product review: At this point it's almost sacrilegious and anti-patriotic to say anything bad about this book, but I must. The bravery of the men who fought on Iwo Jima and the subsequent story of the men who raised the flag is one that must be told--unfortunately James Bradley is not the man to tell it. His writing detracts from the the tale and is so bad and so hackneyed that it is almost an insult to the men about whom he's writing. Bradley's choppy sentences are the stuff of teenagers or college freshmen, and I'm not surprised that this book was rejected by several publishers. Someone should have purchased the idea from Bradley and then hired a much, much better author to flesh it out. If there is a cliche that Bradley doesn't use in Flags of Our Fathers, it's merely because he hadn't heard it yet. I could not help but think, as I was reading it, that the author had movies in mind, not just movies he'd seen but a movie that might be made of the book he was writing.
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