America’s best-selling Pacific historian, James’ first book, Flags of Our Fathers, chronicled the lives of the boys who raised the flag on Iwo Jima; his second, Flyboys, detailed the air war in the Pacific and the dramatic story of George Herbert Walker Bush’s close escape from capture and death; his third, The Imperial Cruise, tells the story of how President Theodore Roosevelt promoted the Japanese Monroe Doctrine for Asia; and his fourth, The China Mirage, tells of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s attitudes towards China in the lead-up to World War II in the Pacific.
About James
James Bradley is a New York Times number one best-selling author of four books on Pacific history. Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood made the movie of his first book, Flags of Our Fathers. James has been traveling in and learning about Asia since 1974, when he attended Sophia University in Tokyo.
My Father’s Buddy
James uncovers the secret behind Ralph Ignatowski’s death on Iwo Jima.
Our Lady in Taipei
Michelle Bradley–James’s Taipei-based daughter–looks at Asia from Taiwan.
Why I Stopped Writing Books
James discovered the hard way that he was not Jimmy Taylor.
Hitchhiking Around the World Pt. 1
James had been in 21 countries by the age of 21.
2. 27 Turndowns
Twenty-seven New York publishers rejected FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
