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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.54265933
EAN num: 9781585446162
ISBN number: 1585446165
Label: Texas A&M University Press
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 536
Printing Date: January 30, 2008
Publishing house: Texas A&M University Press
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From August 1942 until February 1943, two armies faced each other amid the malarial jungles and blistering heat of Guadalcanal Island. The Imperial Japanese forces needed to protect and maintain the air base that gave them the ability to interdict enemy supply routes. The Allies were desperate to halt the advance of a foe that so far had inflicted crippling losses on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, then seized the Philippines, Wake Island, the Dutch East Indies, Guam, and other Allied territory. After months of relentless battle, the U.S. troops forced back the determined Japanese, providing what many historians believe was the decisive turning point in the Pacific theater of operations.
Stanley Coleman Jersey, a medical air evacuation specialist in the South Pacific during World War II, has spent countless hours combing Australian, Japanese, and U.S. documents and interviewing more than 200 veterans of the Guadalcanal campaign, both Allied and Japanese.
Beginning with the events that preceded the battle for Guadalcanal during the Australian defense of the southern Solomon Islands in late 1941, Jersey details the military preparations made in response to intelligence describing the creation of an enemy air base within striking distance of American supply lines and recounts the civilian evacuation that followed the Japanese arrival in New Guinea.
With the stage set, he turns to the campaign itself, with particular emphasis on the combat during the critical period of August to December 1942. While Guadalcanal is his primary focus, Jersey also covers the roles played by forces occupying the other Solomon Islands, including the plight of construction laborers, air crews, and ground units.
This book, chock-full of gripping battlefield accounts and harrowing first-person narratives, draws together for the very first time Allied and Japanese perspectives on the bloody contest. It is certain to become an indispensable asset to historians of World War II.
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I must agree with other reviewers in the completeness and scope of this work, it probably will be unsurpassed for some time, if ever. But I must point out some drawbacks. The sheer volume of detail related on units engaged, weapons and transport used by both sides constantly interrupts the narrative and can get downright confusing with the many changes in deployment prior to and during combat. The author mostly tells us about rather than describes the actionhe is relating, with the only vivid passages being quotes from some of the survivors inserted into the text. Also, it would have been more helpful to have included alot more maps to help inderstand the actions discussed and keep the reader oriented. The scope of this work is truly awesome, but I feel the author would have been better served to have included most of his details in footnotes or endnotes: accessable to those that care, but out of the reader's way for a smoother narrative flow.
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This is a superb book that captures all the significant aspects of the Battle for Guadalcanal. It covers not only tactical and strategic aspects, but the political as well. What I found most interesting about this particular book was it's treatment of patrols and ancillary battles on the outer smaller islands. These actions are commonly over looked in the majority of currently published histories of the battle, yet contributed to the overall sucess of the operation. The detail that is captured by the author is immense, but easy to follow. This book should be on the bookshelf of any student of the Guadalcanal Operation and is a definite "must read" for the serious historian. J.N. Mueller, Colonel US Marines
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Has many interesting facts about the earlier history of the area. Really liked the coverage of the actions on the "outer islands". That's an aspect that hasn't been covered as well as it should in many previous works on this period of the war. Thought the naming of individual commanders down to the platoon level was a bit overdone, but if the author was trying to put faces on the many units involved it is understandable. Worth the price and a fine addition to any library.
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