GUADALCANAL: STARVATION ISLAND

Eric Hammel

B>. NF/NF. Crown publishers, 1987. First Edition. Photographs, appendices, bibliography, index, 478 pages.

"The Japanese defeats at Midway and Guadalcanal decided the outcome of the Pacific War. Guadalca nal was the classic three-dimensional campaign. On land, at sea, and in the air, fierce battles were fought with both sides stretching their supplies and equipment to the braking point. The campaign lasted six months, involved nearly one million men , and stopped Japanese expansion in the Pacific. When the campaign began on August 7, 1942, no one on either side quite knew how to conduct it, as Eric Hammel shows in his masterly account. GUADALCANAL: STARVATION ISLAND corrects numerous errors and omissions in the official records that have been perpertuated in all the books previously published about this campaign. Hammel also draws on the recollections of more than 100 participants on both sides, especially the enlisted men at the s harp end. Their words bring us into the heart of the battle and portray the fighting accurately, realistically, and very powerfully. GUADALCANAL: STARVATION ISLAND follows the men and the commanders of this decisive WWII campaign in an integrated, brilliantly-told narrative of the desperate struggle at sea, on land, and in the air. This is the first in a series of independent books by Eric Hammel that will focus on the Guadalcanal campaign and explore all the elements that made it a turning point in the war in the Pacific."
OUT OF PRINT.

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