THE BATTLE FOR GUADALCANAL

by Samuel B. Griffith ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, 1963

A new addition to the Great Battles of History series, the Guadalcanal campaign was ""grim, bloody and for keeps""; lasting 6 months, its losses were staggering; it sealed Japan's doom and made the U.S. Marines the golden boys of the hour. All of that story is told here but it sometimes reads like a military monograph--shifting from the fighting fields to Washington, from the Imperial Navy to unglamorous glimpses of King, Vandegrift, Halsey, exhaustively ransacking war records, both ours and the enemy's, and correspondence, personal and public. Certainly most WWII reconstructions never receive' so conscientious a canvassing, but although this is factually fine, it is stylistically dull. Yet this campaign, still very fresh in the minds of many reading today, gives this particular volume in the series a contemporary interest as well as reference value.

Pub Date: Aug. 1, 1963

ISBN: 0252068912

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1963

Categories: NONFICTION