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Blazing star, setting sun : the Guadalcanal-Solomons campaign November 1942-March 1943
Title:
Blazing star, setting sun : the Guadalcanal-Solomons campaign November 1942-March 1943
Author:
Cox, Jeffrey R., author.
ISBN:
9781472840462
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Publication Information:
Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2020.

©2020
Physical Description:
512 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Rumblings -- The storms before the storm -- Barfight in the dark -- The morning after -- The reckoning begins -- Just when you think -- Delay, linger, and wait -- Turn around and advance -- Pappy's folly -- Previews.
Abstract:
"From popular Pacific Theatre expert Jeffrey R. Cox comes this insightful new history of the critical Guadalcanal and Solomons campaign at the height of World War II. His previous book, Morning Star, Rising Sun, had found the US Navy at its absolute nadir and the fate of the Enterprise, the last operational US aircraft carrier at this point in the war, unknown. This new volume completes the history of this crucial campaign, combining detailed research with a novelist's flair for the dramatic to reveal exactly how, despite missteps and misfortunes, the tide of war finally turned." -- Amazon.com.
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