The Struggle for Guadalcanal
Subtitle: August 1942-February 1943 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 5)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Castle Books
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780785813064
Subjects: European history: Second World War; Naval forces & warfare; Naval operations, American; Military - Naval; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Europe; United States; Military - World War II; Sale Books; Naval operations; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: ON 8 August 1942 the American public, who had been starved for good war news for two months, read in their morning papers that United States Marines had landed on Guadalcanal and Tulagi, islands in the South Pacific of which few had ever heard.