What did you read this year?
Nic’s
average rating for
2024
3.7
3.7
One of the best books I've read in a long time. A beautiful, sad, happy love story.
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This book is very slow. 159 pages before Tatum actually lands at Iwo Jimo. I actually started to wonder if he would ever get to the war zone. Considering that Basilone died on D-Day at Iwo Jimo, his name seems to have been used as a way to sell this book since the author spent very little time with the Medal of Honor recipient. For all the detail that went into describing the training, there is not much detail about the actual fighting, and the b
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