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Hardcover:
9780451473752 | New Amer Library, November 3, 2015, cover price $27.95
Paperback:
9780451473769 | New Amer Library, November 1, 2016, cover price $17.00
Product Description: On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal, northeast of Australia, launching the first major Allied offensive against Japan. In one of the best-known campaigns of World War II's Pacific Theater, the Marines and then the U...read more
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9780811716260 | Stackpole Books, February 1, 2016, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: On August 7, 1942, U.
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9780425273005 | Berkley Pub Group, October 7, 2014, cover price $26.95
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9780425273012 | Berkley Pub Group, October 6, 2015, cover price $17.00 | also contains Bloody Ridge and Beyond: A World War II Marine's Memoir of Edson's Raiders in the Pacific
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9780425273012 | Berkley Pub Group, October 6, 2015, cover price $17.00 | also contains Bloody Ridge and Beyond: A World War II Marine's Memoir of Edson's Raiders in the Pacific
CD/Spoken Word:
9781483035543 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 7, 2014), cover price $34.95
Paperback:
9781472806932 | Osprey Pub Co, August 18, 2015, cover price $21.95
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9781483035529 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 7, 2014), cover price $105.00
9781483035536, titled "Bloody Ridge and Beyond: A World War II Marine's Memoir of Edson's Raiders in the Pacific, Library Edition" | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 7, 2014), cover price $29.95
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9781623491840 | Texas A & M Univ Pr, November 7, 2014, cover price $35.00
Hardcover:
9780451238047 | 1 edition (New Amer Library, October 2, 2012), cover price $26.95
Paperback:
9780451414823 | Reprint edition (New Amer Library, October 1, 2013), cover price $17.00
Product Description: Â On August 7, 1942, a scant nine months after Pearl Harbor, the Marine Corps struck back against Japan on a small island half a world away: Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands. The stakes were high. The Japanese had been running roughshod across Asia and the Pacific and even into the Indian Ocean...read more
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9780785830702 | Book Sales, August 15, 2013, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Â On August 7, 1942, a scant nine months after Pearl Harbor, the Marine Corps struck back against Japan on a small island half a world away: Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands.
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9781780961545 | Osprey Pub Co, May 21, 2013, cover price $21.95
Product Description: Operation KE explores the air combat that attended the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal in early 1943 - a topic which has hitherto received very little attention. Operation KE was successful largely because Japanese strategic planning and tactical execution was basically sound...read more
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9781591144465 | Naval Inst Pr, November 15, 2012, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Operation KE explores the air combat that attended the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal in early 1943 - a topic which has hitherto received very little attention.
With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does the same for the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal.Neptune’s Inferno is at once the most epic and the most intimate account ever written of the contest for control of the seaways of the Solomon Islands, America’s first concerted offensive against the Imperial Japanese juggernaut and the true turning point of the Pacific conflict. This grim, protracted campaign has long been heralded as a Marine victory. Now, with his powerful portrait of the Navy’s sacrifice—three sailors died at sea for every man lost ashore—Hornfischer tells for the first time the full story of the men who fought in destroyers, cruisers, and battleships in the narrow, deadly waters of “Ironbottom Sound.” Here, in brilliant cinematic detail, are the seven major naval actions that began in August of 1942, a time when the war seemed unwinnable and America fought on a shoestring, with the outcome always in doubt. But at Guadalcanal the U.S. proved it had the implacable will to match the Imperial war machine blow for violent blow. Working from new interviews with survivors, unpublished eyewitness accounts, and newly available documents, Hornfischer paints a vivid picture of the officers and enlisted men who took on the Japanese in America’s hour of need: Vice Admiral William “Bull” Halsey, who took command of the faltering South Pacific Area from his aloof, overwhelmed predecessor and became a national hero; the brilliant Rear Admiral Norman Scott, who died even as he showed his command how to fight and win; Rear Admiral Daniel Callaghan, the folksy and genteel “Uncle Dan,” lost in the strobe-lit chaos of his burning flagship; Rear Admiral Willis Lee, who took vengeance two nights later in a legendary showdown with the Japanese battleship Kirishima; the five Sullivan brothers, all killed in the shocking destruction of the Juneau; and many others, all vividly brought to life.The first major work on this essential subject in almost two decades, Neptune’s Inferno does what all great battle narratives do: It cuts through the smoke and fog to tell the gripping human stories behind the momentous events and critical decisions that altered the course of history and shaped so many lives. This is a thrilling achievement from a master historian at the very top of his game.From the Hardcover edition.
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9780553806700 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 25, 2011, cover price $30.00
Paperback:
9780553385120 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, March 6, 2012, cover price $20.00
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9780307881397 | Unabridged edition (Random House, January 25, 2011), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D.
Product Description: Having been awarded the Medal of Honor for combat on Guadalcanal, U.S. Marine Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone was the first nationally recognized hero of World War II. The epic October 25 to 26, 1942, battle for Guadalcanal in which Basilone was the central figure was the initial turning point in the South West Pacific island's campaign...read more
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9781434999467 | Rosedog Pr, August 31, 2010, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Having been awarded the Medal of Honor for combat on Guadalcanal, U.
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9781434999450 | Dorrance Pub Co, August 4, 2010, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Having been awarded the Medal of Honor for combat on Guadalcanal, U.
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9781846034664 | Osprey Pub Co, October 20, 2009, cover price $18.95
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9780785813064 | Book Sales, March 1, 2001, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Recounts the role of the United States in World War II at sea, from encounters in the Atlantic before the country entered the war to the surrender of Japan.
Paperback:
9781591145516, titled "The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942-February 1943: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II" | Reprint edition (Naval Inst Pr, January 30, 2011), cover price $25.95
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