Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. 1. Uncommon Valor 1
4. 2. Bloody Iwo 21
5. 3. Our Flag Was Still There 40
6. 4. Eyewitness to History 62
7. 5. The Shifting Sands of Heroism 84
8. 6. The Mighty Seventh 102
9. 7. Guts and Glory: Sands of Iwo Jima 122
10. 8. A Marine Corps for the Next Five Hundred Years 146
11. 9. It Didn’t Really Happen That Way 170
12. 10. The Business of Remembering 195
13. 11. D+ Forty Years: A Gathering of Heroes 221
14. Notes 245
15. Illustration. Credits 283
16. Acknowledgments 289
17. Index 293