Guadalcanal 1942–43

America's first victory on the road to Tokyo

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Guadalcanal 1942–43

America's first victory on the road to Tokyo

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Using black and white contemporary photographs, illuminative maps and stunning battle scene illustrations, this comprehensive, detailed account completes the story of the Guadalcanal campaign - possibly the most important of the whole Pacific War.

The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 – the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air, and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated the last of their forces from the island in 1943, it was clear that the tide of the war had turned. The inexorable Japanese advance and the myth of Japanese invincibility shattered.

In this study of the campaign, Pacific War expert Mark Stille draws on both US and Japanese sources to give a balanced and comprehensive account of a crucial, brutal conflict. Analyzing the three Japanese attempts to retake the island in the face of ferocious American resistance, this book shows how the battle was won and lost, and how it affected the outcome of the Pacific War as a whole.

Table of Contents

Origins of the campaign
Chronology

Opposing commanders
Opposing armies
Orders of battle
Opposing plans
The campaign

Aftermath
The battlefields today
Further reading
Index

Product details

Published Aug 20 2015
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781472806956
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 65 b/w; 12 col
Series Campaign
Short code CAM 284
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Mark Stille

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Peter Dennis

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