“Brilliant...an enormous work based on the most meticulous research.â€â€”LA Times Book Review The battle at Guadalcanal—which began eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor—marked the first American offensive of World War II. It was a brutal six-month campaign that cost the lives of some 7;000 Americans and over 30;000 Japanese. This volume; ten years in the writing; recounts the full story of the critical campaign for Guadalcanal and is based on first-time translations of official Japanese Defense Agency accounts and recently declassified U.S. radio intelligence; Guadalcanal recreates the battle—on land; at sea; and in the air—as never before: it examines the feelings of both American and Japanese soldiers; the strategies and conflicts of their commanders; and the strengths and weaknesses of various fighting units.
#81257 in Books imusti 1991-08-06 1991-08-06Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 11.90 x 1.70 x 9.30l; 2.16 #File Name: 0140143955272 pagesPenguin Books
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy David Lumleygreat1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. good info; but it was a difficult read for ...By David Ortegogood info; but it was a difficult read for me. i think it was something to do with the sentence (ing) structure.28 of 32 people found the following review helpful. Idiosyncratic but delightfulBy Lois HuneycuttI recently used this text in a graduate course on the early Middle Ages. I like it because it does several things really well -- most of what is written about the period tends to focus on the period after Alfred the Great because historians are rightly dependent upon written sources that become relatively more plentiful in the later period. This text draws on archaeology really nicely and gives a lot of good visuals. The sidebar discussions of things like estimating the populations of medieval cities are really nice jumping off points for discussion. The book does gloss over several ongoing historiographical debates and becomes; I think; problematically idiosyncratic for the eleventh century. It also lacks discussion of some important issues such as institutional and military history (which is hard to write about in an engaging fashion) and women's history. I wouldn't use it in an undergrad course without a lot of supplementation.
