Kumiko Kakehashi
SO SAD TO FALL IN BATTLE
AN ACCOUNT OF WAR
Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi’s Letters from Iwo Jima
MAP
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
LEAVING FOR THE FRONT
CHAPTER TWO
22 KM2 OF WILDERNESS
CHAPTER THREE
THE STRATEGY
CHAPTER FOUR
RESOLVE
CHAPTER FIVE
FAMILY
CHAPTER SIX
THE AMERICAN INVASION
CHAPTER SEVEN
THE ISLAND WHERE YOU WALK ON THE DEAD
CHAPTER EIGHT
THE SOLDIERS’ LETTERS
CHAPTER NINE
THE BATTLE
CHAPTER TEN
THE END
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LIST OF INTERVIEWEES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Copyright
