James bradley author bio

American author

For the Australian novelist and critic, see James Bradley (Australian writer).

James Bradley (born May 4, ) is an American author from Antigo, Wisconsin,^[1] specializing in historical nonfiction chronicling the Pacific theatre of World War II.

His father, John Bradley, was involved in the first raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in ^[2]

Biography

James Bradley was raised in Wisconsin and earned a degree in East Asian History from the University of Wisconsin.^[3]

Books

In , Bradley published Flags of Our Fathers, written with the author Ron Powers, which tells the story of five US Marines and a US Navy corpsman attached to the Marines Corps (his father, John Bradley, who did not raise the second, larger flag), raising the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Seventh War Loan Drive after the battle.

In that book, which spent 46 weeks