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This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles--crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all, and to military history in general. Unlike some of those on Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942, Richard Tregaskis volunteered to be there. An on-location news correspondent (at the time, one of only two on Guadalcanal), he lived alongside the soldiers: sleeping on the ground--only to be awoken by air raids--eating the sometimes meager rations, and braving some of the most dangerous battlefields of World ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good, shelf wear. 180 p. illus. 22 cm. "This edition...was taken from the longer, original edition...Extra chapters [have been added]" read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: N. Y. : Random House, 1943, N. Y.
Date Published: 1943
Description: Frontispiece. Reading Copy in As is jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. WW II--------The hard cover has light wear and the spine is loose from the binding. The first frontispiece page is loose. The jacket has chips and tears. Moisture damage to the hard cover and jacket not the pages.............We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by.. read more
Description: Reading copy title page missing front hinge loose, no jacket. 263 pages, water stain front board and top spine date stamped on front end page and pastedown. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780394862682ISBN:0394862686
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages clean, unmarked. Book appears in very good condition on front cover, but back cover has 2 creases and a turned corner. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 169 p. Landmark Paperbacks Series: No. 14. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books, New York
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good. No dust jacket. 5 p. l., 3-263 p. front. (group ports. ) plates. 21 cm. Includes: Portraits, Plates. This one has the Marine Corps Emblem on the front. Uncut edge, and is a tad soiled/faded. Stain on the spine. Inside looks clean a touch of yellowing. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, NY
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good. No Jacket. 192 pp., illus., Landmark childrens' book, back hinge cracked, browned tape stains on end-papers, the book had a clear plastic cover on it. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 263 pp. Spine is slightly faded, the cover less so. Stated first printing. First signature is loosening, but still attached. The classic recounting of the battle for Guadalcanal. read more
Edition: 17th Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Popular Library, New York
Date Published: 1962
Description: Good. June 1962 206 pages. # K4 40 cents cover price. Tight clean square book. Cover edge wear. Crease on back cover. Store stamp inside back cover. Some age tanning. Foreword by General A. A. Vandegrift. Epic hour-by-hour acount of the U. S. Marines in battle. Here is the dramatic, on-the-spot stor of the battle that proved the turning point in the struggle for the Pacific during World War 2. read more
Binding: Hdbk with Pprcvrs & Spine
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good in Good jacket. Red bds, slight bow in ctr, clean & tight slight edgewear DJ chipped tears, but all there. 263 pgs, b/w photos. A New Chapter in the History of America by a correspondent who landed on Guadalcanal with the first detachment of U S Marines. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good + No DJ. 12mo = 7-9" 192pp. Illustrated boards with bumping on spine and shows wear to edges and corners. Part of the Landmark Series #55. Front hinge and spine is loose. Previous owner's name in marker on front endpaper. Black & white photos. "A stirring chapter in American history by a correspondent who landed on Guadalcanal with the first detachment of United States Marines in World War II. " read more
Edition: Special Edition for members of the Armed Services only.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1943
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Book is tanned with age and has scuffed edges and corners front and back. Pages, though tanned, are unmarked. Maps inside both covers and picture of author with Maj. Gen. A. VandeGrift on back. 185 p. Includes maps. Specila edition paperback with illustrated cover. Audience: general/trade. An hour-by-hour, eyewitness account of the invasion of the Solomons by the U.S. Marines that changed the outcome of World War II. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Paper
Publisher: Popular Library, New York
Date Published: 1962
Description: Cover Art. Very Good. No Jacket. Vintage Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. WW II--------NON FICTION--------COVER PRICE.40 cents-------#K4--------The cover has some light shelf wear and the pages has some yellowing...... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780394803555ISBN:0394803558
Description: Illustrated. Good. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED CLOTH COVER WITH LIGHT SOILING, SPINE LIGHTLY SOILED. INTERIOR PAGES STAMPED "DISCARD" AND HAVE LIGHT FINGERING TO MARGINS WITH LIBRARY STAMPS MARKED OUT. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1943
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 263 pp. First printing. The spine is very slightly faded; very slight soiling to the covers. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. The classic recounting of the battle for Guadalcanal. read more
"This wasn't a great book but it was an interesting read. I expected more than what I got out of it. Richard Tregaskis is a journalist who tags along with the U.S. Marines when they invade Guadalcanal during WWII. Each day he records what he sees and hears for the people back home in the U.S. Where Tregaskis succeeds is in his description of Guadalcanal and the surrounding islands. He made these exotic South Pacific islands come alive for me. Where he fails is his inability to convey the excitement, fear, and other emotions people go through in a war. Everything is written so matter-of-fact. For example, Tregaskis writes about bombing raids and air raid drills occurring every single night. But he never tells us how the lack of sleep affected them. They had to be exhausted. What did they eat? What did they carry with them? I wanted to know more, more, more. In another strange part of the book, Moana Tregaskis writes the afterword but nowhere do they tell us who she is. Wife, daughter, niece of Tregaskis? Just another missing gap in this book."
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