Derailing the Tokyo Express
Subtitle: the naval battles for the Solomon Islands that sealed Japan's fate
By: Jack D. Coombe.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Harrisburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Solomon Islands.
Description: The savage naval battles that resulted from the American attempt to intercept the Tokyo Express and liberate the Solomons are vividly recounted in this important new work, which contends that the defeat of the Japanese in the Solomons, not the Battle of Midway, was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-156) and index.