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A JOHN GRESHAM MILITARY LIBRARY SELECTION A MASTERLY ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S FIRST OFFENSIVE IN THE PACIFIC DURING WORLD WAR II When the Marines' campaign to wrest the remote Southwest Pacific island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese began in August 1942, few knew how to conduct it--and no one expected it to last six months. Hammel collects the stories of more than 100 participants on both sides to brilliantly tell one of the most bitter campaigns of World War II in the Pacific.Hammel, Eric is the author of 'Guadalcanal Starvation Island' with ISBN 9780935553048 and ISBN 0935553045.
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