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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: Hardcover
Publisher: Random house, New York
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. 5 p. l., 3-263 p. front. (group ports. ) plates. 21 cm. Maps on lining-papers. "First printing. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random house, New York
Date Published: 1943
Description: Very Good. 5 p. l., 3-263 p. front. (group ports. ) plates. 21 cm. Maps on lining-papers. "First printing. " Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Cover shows light wear to edges, corners and spine tips. Page edges show moderate soiling. Front endpaper has few notes from previous owner. No other markings. Endpapers and pages are lightly sunned to edges. Text block is shaken, hinges are solid. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Popular Library #K4
Date Published: 1962
Description: Fair. This copy is in acceptable condition. Indentation and crease on front and small crease on back. Pages are mostly tanned. 1962 ED. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780394862682ISBN:0394862686
Description: Good. 0394862686 Good Condition **Softcover**--Exactly as pictured--EXACT ISBN MATCH--cover has shelf wear, and corner curl, and Spine Creasing, age tan, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Still well bound despite age. Ships Quickly-IN STOCK-Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random house, New York
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Spine faded and boards faded/soiled. Binding partly loose. 5 p. l., 3-263 p. front. (group ports. ) plates. 21 cm. Includes: Portraits, Plates. Maps on lining-papers. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random house, New York
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Nice hard cover, first printing, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, light aging to pages, stk #2606e9. 5 p. l., 3-263 p. front. (group ports. ) plates. 21 cm. Includes: Portraits, Plates. Maps on lining-papers. "First printing. " read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: popular library, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. No dust jacket. 206 PAGES THE EPIC HOUR BY HOUR ACCOUNT OF U.S. MARINES IN BATTLE. WITH FORWARD BY GENERAL A.A. VANDERGRIFT read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, N. Y.
Date Published: 1943
Description: Illustrated. Good. No Jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with normal flaws.......The hard cover has light shelf wear, fade and yellowing.....Light yellowing to the pages.........We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by.. 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
"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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