Morning Star, Midnight Sun

The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942

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Morning Star, Midnight Sun

The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942

Description

Following on from his hugely successful book Rising Sun, Falling Skies, Jeffrey R. Cox tells the gripping story of the first Allied offensive of the Pacific War, as they sought to prevent Japan from cutting off Australia and regaining dominance in the Pacific.

Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Solomon Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal.

Hamstrung by arcane prewar thinking and a bureaucratic mindset, the US Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity and creativity thus far had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire. Starting with the amphibious assault on Savo Island, the campaign turned into an attritional struggle where the evenly matched foes sought to grind out a victory.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Visitors
Chapter 1. Fighting the Problem
Chapter 2. Makee Learnee
Chapter 3. The Sleeping Watch
Chapter 4. Pandaemonium
Chapter 5. Is He Lucky?
Chapter 6. Pride Goeth…
Chapter 7. “Why Not?”
Chapter 8. “I am Aoba”
Chapter 9. All Hell's Eve
Chapter 10. The Lion Comes
Chapter 11. Not Quite Midway
Chapter 12. And Then There Was One
Epilogue: Far from Satisfactory, Far from Hopeless

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Photographs
About the Author

Product details

Published Feb 19 2019
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 448
ISBN 9781472826428
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations Non-illustrated with 3 mono plate sections
Dimensions 234 x 153 mm
Series General Military
Short code GNM
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Jeffrey Cox

Jeffrey R. Cox is a litigation attorney and an ind…

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