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The Battle for Guadalcanal
Samuel B. Griffith
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Description for The Battle for Guadalcanal
Paperback. Factual, yet human and vivid and eminently readable, The Battle for Guadacanal, is military history at its best Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1MKLS; HBG; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
Masterful pacing, vivid character sketches, and gripping action blend with rigorous historical detail in Samuel B. Griffith's The Battle for Guadalcanal.
Launched on August 7, 1942, to protect Allied control of the strategic South Pacific islands, the Guadalcanal operation was the most costly American offensive of World War II in the history of the U.S. Navy up to that time. Griffith, who fought with Edson's Raiders on Guadalcanal, describes in gritty detail the vicious close-range fighting, the valiant defense of the Henderson Field airstrip, and the dramatic naval engagements that led, in February 1943, to an American ... Read more
Masterful pacing, vivid character sketches, and gripping action blend with rigorous historical detail in Samuel B. Griffith's The Battle for Guadalcanal.
Launched on August 7, 1942, to protect Allied control of the strategic South Pacific islands, the Guadalcanal operation was the most costly American offensive of World War II in the history of the U.S. Navy up to that time. Griffith, who fought with Edson's Raiders on Guadalcanal, describes in gritty detail the vicious close-range fighting, the valiant defense of the Henderson Field airstrip, and the dramatic naval engagements that led, in February 1943, to an American ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252068911
SKU
V9780252068911
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Reviews for The Battle for Guadalcanal
"A thrilling narrative. It has the authentic quality of Marine Corps greatness."
Marquis Childs "[The] writing is factual, but because it pays attention to personalities, it is also human and vivid... Highly interesting ... and eminently readable."
Elbridge Colby, America "[Griffith] has succeeded admirably in producing a concise and coherent account."
Library Journal
Marquis Childs "[The] writing is factual, but because it pays attention to personalities, it is also human and vivid... Highly interesting ... and eminently readable."
Elbridge Colby, America "[Griffith] has succeeded admirably in producing a concise and coherent account."
Library Journal