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xxxi, 478 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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1 of 1	Bemis Lower Level	940.5426 HAMMEL,E
1 of 1	CMU Main Books 3rd Floor	D767.98 H33 2004

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[1987]

Crown Publishers

478 pages : maps ; 23 cm.

2004

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7) The Battle of Guadalcanal, 11-15 November 1942

Author:

Jameson, Colin G.

Series:

Combat narratives.Solomon Islands campaign volume 6

Publisher:

Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy :

Pub. Date:

1994

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English

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Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy :

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1 of 1	CMU Storage Gov Pub	D 207.20:B 32
1 of 1	WCU Gov Docs	[GOVDOCS] D 207.20:B 32

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1994

vii, 90 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

8) Midnight in the Pacific: Guadalcanal : the World War II battle that turned the tide of war

Author:

Wheelan, Joseph

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English

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xxi, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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1 of 1	Bemis Lower Level	940.5426593 WHEELAN
1 of 1	Pitkin County Library	940.54 W561

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[2017]

Da Capo Press

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2017

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From early August until mid-November of 1942, US Marines, sailors, and pilots struggled for dominance against an implacable enemy: Japanese soldiers, inculcated with the bushido tradition of death before dishonor, avatars of bayonet combat--close-up, personal, and gruesome. The glittering prize was Henderson Airfield. Japanese planners knew that if they neutralized the airfield, the battle was won. So did the Marines who stubbornly defended it. The...

9) Guadalcanal: the first offensive

Author:

Miller, John, 1915-1966

Series:

CMH pub volume 5-3
United States Army in World War II.War in the Pacific

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English

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National Historical Society

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1 of 1	ASU Governement Documents (2nd floor)	D 114.7:P 11/v.2
1 of 1	CMU Storage Gov Pub	D 114.7:P 11/v.2
1 of 1	DC Cedaredge Adult Non-Fiction	940.54 UNI

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1993

50th anniversary commemorative ed

xviii, 413 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 23 cm.

Historical Division, Dept. of the Army

1949

xviii, 413 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps (some folded, color) ; 26 cm.

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10) The battles of Cape Esperance, 11 October 1942 and Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942

This account of the first victory over Japanese ground forces, told at the level of companies, platoons, and even individuals, demonstrates the relationship between air, ground, and surface forces in modern warfare.

Author:

Poor, Henry V.

Series:

Combat narratives.Solomon Islands campaign volume 4-5

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Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy :

Pub. Date:

1994

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English

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Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy :

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1 of 1	CMU Storage Gov Pub	D 207.20:C 17
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1994

x, 80 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

11) Knife's edge: South Pacific carrier battles from the eastern Solomons to Santa Cruz

Author:

Stern, Robert C. (Robert Cecil), 1946-

Publisher:

Naval Institute Press

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[2023]

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English

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1 of 1	GCP NewCas Non Fiction	940.542 STE

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[2023]

Naval Institute Press

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"While the resounding American victory at Midway in June 1942 blunted Japanese momentum to a great extent, it left the opposing forces precariously balanced, particularly in the South Pacific. In Knife's Edge Robert C. Stern provides an account of the Battles of the Eastern Solomons and the Santa Cruz Islands, the two pivotal carrier air battles that followed the initial engagements at the Coral Sea and Midway between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial...

12) The landing in the Solomons, 7-8 August 1942

Author:

Ware, Leonard, Lt

Series:

Combat narratives.Solomon Islands campaign volume 1

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Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy :

Pub. Date:

1994

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English

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Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy :

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1994

viii, 101 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

13) The ninety days

Author:

Carmichael, Thomas N.

Publisher:

B. Geis Associates

Pub. Date:

[1971]

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English

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339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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1 of 1	CMU Main Books 3rd Floor	D755.4 .C37

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[1971]

B. Geis Associates

14) Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal, the turning point of the war

Author:

Leckie, Robert, 1920-2001

Series:

Crossroads of world history

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English

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ix, 372 pages : maps. ; 24 cm.

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1 of 1	ASU Main (3rd floor)	D767.98 .L4
1 of 1	CMU Main Books 3rd Floor	D767.98 .L4

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1965

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Doubleday

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Story of the hundred-day World War II battle at Guadalcanal in which Americans seized the offensive from the Japanese.

15) The battle for Guadalcanal

Author:

Griffith, Samuel B.

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University of Illinois Press

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2000

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English

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University of Illinois Press

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2000

xi, 282 pages : maps ; 23 cm

16) Every shape, every shadow: a novel of Guadalcanal

Author:

Conlee, Roger L.

Publisher:

Pale Horse Productions

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[2004]

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English

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[2004]

Pale Horse Productions

267 pages : maps ; 20 cm

17) Cartwheel: the reduction of Rabaul

Author:

Miller, John, 1915-1966

Series:

CMH pub volume 5-5
United States Army in World War II.War in the Pacific

Publisher:

Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army

Pub. Date:

1959

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English

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Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army

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1959

xvi, 418 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps (part folded, part color, 1 in pocket) ; 26 cm.

18) The castaway's war: one man's battle against Imperial Japan

Author:

Harding, Stephen, 1952-

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English

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Summit-Breck Non Fiction

940.54 HAR

Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group

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[2016]

First edition

xi, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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940.54 HAR

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19) Guadalcanal: the definitive account of the landmark battle

"Presents the story of Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, who was marooned on a South Pacific island and waged a one-man war against Japanese forces. By the author of The New York Times best-seller The Last Battle,"--NoveList.

Author:

Frank, Richard B.

Publisher:

Penguin Books

Pub. Date:

1992

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English

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xiv, 800 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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1992

Penguin Books

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20) Evans Carlson, Marine raider: the man who commanded America's first special forces / Duane Schultz

"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...

Author:

Schultz, Duane P.

Publisher:

Westholme Publishing, LLC

Pub. Date:

2014

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English

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Westholme Publishing, LLC

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2014

x, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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