* Story of how military photographers got their shots while storming beaches and assaulting pillboxes with combat troops Hatch filmed With the Marines at Tarawa, which won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject * New details on the controversy surrounding the famous photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima * Hatch was Person of the Week on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer in March 2010 * For fans of Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, and HBO's The Pacific Charles Jones, a former staff writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, has also written Boys of'67 (978-0-8117-3394-6), which the New York Post called "riveting and entertaining" and which won the Military Writers Society of America's Gold Medal for Best Biography, and Red, White, or Yellow? (978-0-8117-0402-1), for which he embedded with a military unit in Iraq. Jones lives in Richmond, Virginia.

About the Author
Charles O. Jones is Hawkins Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a non-resident Senior Fellow in the Governmental Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.


Book Information
ISBN 9780811706315
Author Charles Jones
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Stackpole Books
Publisher Stackpole Books