Guadalcanal Campaign
Briefing
The first major Allied ground offensive of the Pacific War began in August 1942 and ran for six months of attritional jungle fighting, starvation, and seven major naval battles in waters that earned the name Ironbottom Sound. By February 1943 Japan had been forced onto the defensive for good — at the cost of more American sailors dead at sea than Marines on the island.
Books Covering This Event (12)
Memoir
A war correspondent's eyewitness account of the first months of the Guadalcanal campaign, published while the.
A Marine's memoir of Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu — from enlistment through combat to homecoming.
William Manchester's memoir of his time as a Marine in the Pacific, interwoven with a pilgrimage to the.
Popular History
The United States Marines against Japan, island by island, by a man who fought as one.
The official companion to the HBO series, following five men through the island campaigns.
The savage naval battles around Guadalcanal — the most costly naval campaign in American history.
A sightseeing flight crashes in an uncharted New Guinea valley; three survivors meet a stone-age people, and gliders come to get them out.
The second volume of Toll's Pacific War Trilogy, covering the brutal middle years from Guadalcanal to the Marianas.
Historical Fiction
Linked stories of sailors, nurses, and islanders waiting out the war between battles in the islands.
A platoon of American soldiers fights to take a Japanese-held island in the Pacific.
A novel following an Army rifle company during the Guadalcanal campaign — the second volume of Jones's war.