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Guadalcanal : The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Richard B. Frank | | Publisher: | Penguin (Non-Classics) | | Release date: | 01 January, 1992 | | List price: | $21.00 |
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The best history of the Battle for Guadalcanal |
| This is by far the best written and most thorough account of the battle for guadalcanal. I've read it 4 times and I am sure to read it again. |
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Guadalcanal |
| This book really is the definitive account of the battle for Guadalcanal and the various operations that took place in the early Solomon Islands campaign. Like many Pacific battles, this one was fought in some of the worst conditions imaginable, which were over come by sheer grit and fortitude. This is the story of how Americans and Japanese fought tooth and nail, literally (in the Japanese case at least) to the last man to control a miserable south Pacific island called Guadalcanal. Deriving from extensive research including then-recently de-classified documents, Frank has produced the greatest work yet on the landmark battle that raged from August 1942 to February 1943 and changed the course of the war in the Pacific. Highly recommended. |
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Lots of Information |
| This is not a light read, nor should it be. While reading this book, you will not be wanting of information. Frank has loaded this volume with incredible detail. I did not give this book the full 5 star review because it needed a few more maps, eventhough the maps it contains are good. There is a plethera of names to deal with from the islands to the Japanese officers to the US officers to the ship names. This is a very thorough treatment of this critical campaign. This will stand as great reference book and a welcome addition to a WWII library. The reader should be forewarned that this is not a casual read and if one is looking for a more abridged treatment, I would refer to the Samuel Eliot Morison's volume V of the History of Naval Operations in WWII. |
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