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Jersey Stanley Coleman <1921-> |
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Titolo |
Hell's islands : the untold story of Guadalcanal / / Stanley Coleman Jersey ; foreword by Edward W. Snedeker |
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College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-05284-3 |
1-60344-455-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (537 p.) |
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Collana |
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Texas A & M University military history series ; ; 111 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Solomon Islands - Guadalcanal |
Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943 |
Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) History, Military |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Hell�s Islands""; ""1 The Eve of World War II""; ""2 The Enemy at the Doorstep""; ""3 Flying Before the Storm""; ""4 The Japanese in the Southern Solomons, May�August 1942""; ""5 Preparing for Battle""; ""6 The Early Air War""; ""7 Day One, Guadalcanal""; ""8 Day One: Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo""; ""9 Day Two: Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo""; ""10 Guadalcanal: Hanging On""; ""11 Bloody September""; ""12 Black October""; ""13 A River Too Far""; ""14 War in the Outer Islands"" |
""15 The U.S. Army Takes Over""""16 The Ke-go Operation""; ""Epilogue""; ""Appendix 1 Telegram to U.S. Navy Forces, 4 August 1942""; ""Appendix 2 Japanese Naval Forces in the Southern Solomons""; ""Appendix 3 Japanese 2nd Infantry Division""; ""Appendix 4 The Japanese Seventeenth Army Group""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""; ""Special Acknowledgments""; ""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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 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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