{"product_id":"the-graves-of-iwo-carl-williams-9798951570437","title":"The Graves of Iwo: A Narrative History of the Montford Point Marines at Iwo Jima","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey carried the living. Then they carried the dead. And they called every roll right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFebruary 27, 1945. The order arrives five typed lines long, and it changes everything: the 36th Marine Depot Company is assigned to the Fifth Marine Division cemetery, burials and construction, until further notice. First Sergeant Greer tells his men the truth before a shovel moves. Somebody looked at a map and handed this island's most sacred ground to the men the Marine Corps trusts least, never understanding what it was handing them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is the war's most devastating detail, run like a covenant. Gunnery Sergeant Pruitt, already a legend for the ammunition ledger he kept exact in the surf under fire, sets the cemetery's law at once: every man identified, every effects pouch packed as if it is bound for a kitchen table in America, because it is, and every row read aloud before the earth closes. Private Archibald Mosley, eighteen, becomes one of the readers, and a burial detail of men their country would not let fight learns to answer him the same way every single time. The roll is correct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Detroit sign painter named Tolliver hand-letters a thousand grave markers so precisely that strangers will find these men by name half a century on. A dockworker named Freeny, who left school at eleven, sounds out the letters on every board he paints, and over the day's finished rows decides he is going home a reader. And one grave in row twelve holds a man nobody can name, whose story will not let the company go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica handed these men its dead and never asked what that would cost, or what it would build. This book is the answer to both.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Marine Corps did not count them. This book counts every single one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798951570437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Inkylines \u0026amp; Words\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d","brand":"Carl Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780336881919,"sku":"9798951570437","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_584fc05d-cc94-4c6f-ba12-f8aefcacbbcf.jpg?v=1792950852","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-graves-of-iwo-carl-williams-9798951570437","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}