| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 516 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-489) and index. |
| Contents |
Eight-two ships -- Sea of troubles. Trip wire ; A great gray fleet ; The first D-Day ; Nothing worthy of Your Majesty's attention ; Fly the carriers ; A captain in the fog ; The martyring of Task Group 62.6 ; Burning in the rain -- Fighting fleet rising. A new kind of fight ; The Tokyo Express ; A function at the junction ; What they were build for ;The warriors ; The devil may care ;The visit ; Night of a new moon ; Pulling the trigger ; "Pour it to 'em" -- Storm tide. All hell's eve ; The weight of a war ; Enter fighting ; "Strike-- repeat, strike" ; Santa Cruz ; Secret history ; Turner's choice ; Suicide ; Black Friday ; Into the light ; The killing salvo ; Death in the Machine Age ; Point blank ; Among the shadows ; Atlanta burning ; Cruiser in the sky ; Regardless of losses -- The thundering. The giants ride ; The gun club ; The kind of men who win a war ; On the spot ; The futility of learning ; Future rising ; Report and echo ; The opinion of convening authority ; Ironbottom Sound -- Ships and aircraft types of the Guadalcanal Campaign -- Naval battles of the Guadalcanal Campaign -- Total naval losses at Guadalcanal. |
| Summary |
Draws on interviews with veterans and primary sources to present a narrative account of the pivotal World War II campaign, chronicling the three-month effort to gain control of Guadalcanal as a battle that taught the U.S. Navy and Marines new approaches to warfare. |
| Subject |
Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
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United States. Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.
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United States. Navy -- Biography.
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Veterans -- United States -- Interviews.
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Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943 -- Personal narratives, American.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hornfischer, James D. Neptune's inferno. 1st ed. New York : Bantam Books, c2011 9780553806700 (DLC) 2010027231 (OCoLC)613432356 |
| ISBN |
9780553908077 (electronic bk.) |
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0553908073 (electronic bk.) |
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