"Flyboys, the heartbreaking and horrifying saga of eight American airmen who went down during bombing runs over the Pacific, is the result of Bradley's courage in putting a face on wartime atrocities. Bradley allows survivors to tell their harrowing stories in white-knuckle details and does a commendable job of setting the bloody events on Chichi Jima within a historical framework that helps to explain both the American and Japanese thirst for blood in wartime. Perhaps that is the real value of Flyboys: to tell a story so unspeakable, so unimaginable, that we will remember it and try to ensure it does not happen again."