Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life

by Paul Hendrickson

Book Overview

From the acclaimed and best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat, the profoundly moving story of his father's wartime service as a night fighter pilot, and the prices he and his fellow soldiers paid for their acts of selfless, patriotic sacrifice

In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson, the author's father, kissed his twenty-one-year-old wife and two baby children goodbye. The twenty-five-year-old first lieutenant, pilot of a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593321138
• ISBN13: 9780593321133
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.3"