A Pacifist at Iwo Jima

Lee Mandel is a retired U.S. Navy physician. He served at four Navy hospitals, was twice a staff internist at the Office of the Attending Physician, U.S. Congress, and was the Senior Medical Officer aboard three U.S. Navy aircraft carriers. He has published numerous journal articles both in medicine and history. He lives in Suffolk, Virginia.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Prologue

Part I. Pacifist

One. Family Origins

Two. Gifted Student

Three. War No More

Four. Discovery

Five. The New Rabbi

Six. Speaking Out for Peace as the Temple Grows

Seven. Popular Front

Eight. “The Next War for Democracy Will Kill Democracy”

Nine. “On Three Things Does the Whole World Depend”

Ten. Munich

Eleven. A World on the Brink

Twelve. The War Begins

Thirteen. Private Life

Fourteen. A Vision of the Common Man at War and a Surprise

Part II. Warrior

Fifteen. Becoming a Chaplain

Sixteen. The First Marine Rabbi

Seventeen. The Road to Iwo Jima

Eighteen. Going Overseas with the 5th Marine Division

Nineteen. Invasion

Twenty. In the Heat of Battle

­Twenty-One. Uncommon Valor

­Twenty-Two. Coping with Hell on Earth

­Twenty-Three. Endgame

­Twenty-Four. The Purest Democracy

­Twenty-Five. Aftermath

­Twenty-Six. Why Pacifism Failed

­Twenty-Seven. Once a Marine …

­Twenty-Eight. ­Post-War Years

Epilogue

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index