Little Brown, New York, 2003, 1^st Ed., 12^th pr.  ISBN 0-316-10584-8.  Hard cover, 398 pages including Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, and Index.  Very good plus; tight binding with headbands; spine ends bumped.  Dust jacket with price intact has a bit of edge and cover wear, a few rubs.  Interior clean and unmarked; illustrated end papers; black & white photo plate sections; maps.  ‘Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers – Navy and Marine airmen sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there – were shot down.  One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine.  The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner.  Then they disappeared.’ (from front flap)