James Bradley

James Bradley is the author of the New York Times #1 best seller, Flags of Our Fathers. Steven Spielberg has acquired the movie rights and The New York Times called it “the surprise runaway nonfiction best seller of the season.”

Flags of Our Fathers is about the six boys who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima during World War II. The photograph of the heroic flag raising is one of the most reproduced images in history. James’ father, John Bradley, was one of those six brave men who raised the flag that day.

James’ second book, Flyboys, is also a New York Times best seller. Flyboys is the long-suppressed story of eight American Navy and Marine pilots who were captured and beheaded on Chichi Jima, the island adjacent to Iwo Jima. There was a ninth pilot who managed to escape and was rescued by a U.S. submarine. His name is George Bush.

James Bradley was raised in Wisconsin, studied at Notre Dame in Indiana and at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated with a degree in East Asian History from the University of Wisconsin. James is currently president of the James Bradley Peace Foundation, which fosters understanding between America and Asia and sends American students to Japan and China to study.

Before becoming an author, James produced corporate films. He is an avid reader of history and has traveled the world extensively, living and working in more than 40 countries.