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Sixty-one years ago, the American and Japanese armies clashed on Iwo Jima. Several decades later, hundreds of letters were discovered in the island's lava soil. These letters give faces and voices to the anonymous ranks of soldiers fighting in the war. The Japanese soldiers who are sent to Iwo Jima realize that the chances of returning from the battlefield are slim. The commander of the defense is General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, whose travels in America showed him the merciless face of war, but also led him to understand how to prevent the Americans from further expansion in the Pacific. Thanks to Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics, the fighting, which the Americans had imagined would be a quick and bloody defeat, dragged on for forty days of heroic and resourceful defense. This was also achieved because Kuribayashi's fighters had mastered their orientation on the volcanic island...
