James Bradley’s New York Times bestselling book, FLYBOYS, tells the incredible secret WWII story of how eight flyboys were shot down in the Pacific and killed on the island of Chi Chi Jima and why the US government hid the details. A ninth flyboy got away. His name was George Herbert Walker Bush. Former President Bush did not know the details of what happened until James told him.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s grandfather—Warren Delano—was the Americans opium king of China. James tells how some of America’s founding families made fortunes in the illegal opium trade.

Millions of people around the world have read James Bradley’s New York Times #1 bestselling book, Flags of Our Fathers. Millions more saw the Steven Spielberg/Clint Eastwood movie Flags of Our Fathers. But few know the incredible backstory of how twenty-seven publishers rejected the book and it took years to get published.