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Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life
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Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life Hardcover - 2024

by Hendrickson, Paul

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Knopf, 2024-05-07. hardcover. New.
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Details

  • Title Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life
  • Author Hendrickson, Paul
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf
  • Date 2024-05-07
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9780593321133
  • ISBN 9780593321133 / 0593321138
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.6 x 1.2 in (23.62 x 16.76 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, United States - Officers
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2023017439
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2024, Page 14
  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2024, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 12/01/2023, Page 12
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/12/2024, Page 0

About the author

PAUL HENDRICKSON is a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a winner in 2003 for his book Sons of Mississippi. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War was a 1996 finalist for the National Book Award. Hemingway's Boat was a New York Times best seller and also a best seller in the UK. He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Since 1998, he has been on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and for two decades before that, he was a staff writer at The Washington Post. He lives with his wife, Cecilia, a retired nurse, outside Philadelphia and in Washington, DC.