Cartas desde Iwo Jima del general Kuribayashi. (So Sad To Fall in The Battle: General Tadamichi Kuribayashi’s Letters From Iwo Jima)
Reviewed by [PW 2/5/07] -- Críticas, 5/1/2008
Kakeshashi, Kumiko.
tr. by Jorsi Jiménez Samanes. Spain: El Andén, dist. by Urano Pub.. 2007. 259p. ISBN 978-84-935789-8-5. pap. $TK. STORIES
For most Americans, Iwo Jima begins and ends with Joe Rosenthal's famous WWII photograph: Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. But the riveting story that Kakehashi presents, detailing the rarely-seen Japanese perspective, will give readers a new angle on the pivotal American victory. Part of the basis for Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-nominated film, Letters from Iwo Jima, Kakehashi's cogent narrative reconstructs, from family letters and interviews, the months leading up to the March 1945 battle. Kakehashi focuses primarily on Japanese General Tadamachi Kuribayashi, a man described by U.S. Commander Lt. General Holland M. Smith as the "most redoubtable" Japanese leader he faced, but who strayed far from the stereotype of the Japanese warrior. Kakehashi's sensitive portrayal of Kuribayashi is revealing and moving; her description of battlefield conditions is similarly compelling. Though it can be repetitive, Kakehashi includes many illuminating glimpses into daily life, and a haunting epilog, in which Kakehashi accompanies families on a one-day memorial pilgrimage to Iwo Jima in 2004. Recommended for large Spanish-language collections only.
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