Iwo Jima Recon

the long version

Drawing on first-person accounts, deck logs, and after-action reports, Camp brings the action to harrowing life: the thin-skinned reconfigured LCIs fighting it out with the Japanese in a valiant effort to protect the swimmers caught five hundred yards off the beach; the battleship Nevada ignoring orders to withdraw and moving in to knock out the enemy's heavy caliber guns; the devastating action-- casualties of 40 percent-- that very likely saved the actual landing on the 19th.