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Guadalcanal: Starvation Island
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Eric Hammel (Goodreads Author)
GUADALCANAL
Starvation Island
Eric Hammel
The Japanese defeats at Midway and Guadalcanal decided the outcome of the Pacific War. Guadalcanal was the classic three-dimensional campaign. On land, at sea, and in the air, fierce battles were fought with both sides stretching their supplies and equipment to the breaking point. The campaign lasted six months, involved nearly one mi...more
Starvation Island
Eric Hammel
The Japanese defeats at Midway and Guadalcanal decided the outcome of the Pacific War. Guadalcanal was the classic three-dimensional campaign. On land, at sea, and in the air, fierce battles were fought with both sides stretching their supplies and equipment to the breaking point. The campaign lasted six months, involved nearly one mi...more
ebook, 528 pages
Published
January 25th 2010
by Pacifica Military History
(first published March 18th 1987)
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"Starvation Island" is the definitive book on Guadalcanal. When read in context with "Decision at Sea" and "The Carrier Battles" the full impact of this first strike against Imperial Japan becomes evident. The men of the First Marine Division now rank in history with other elite units who were drawn into desperate do or die last stands for their countries. The First Marine Division emblem is now and forever emblazoned with the preeminent constellation of the southern hemisphere that of the South...more
Amazing, heroic, epic!!!
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I was born in 1946, in Salem, Massachusetts, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I graduated from Central High School of Philadelphia in January 1964 and earned a degree in Journalism from Temple University in 1972.
My road to writing military history began at age 12, when I was stuck in bed for a week with a childhood illness. My father bought me the first paperback book I ever owned, Walter...more
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My road to writing military history began at age 12, when I was stuck in bed for a week with a childhood illness. My father bought me the first paperback book I ever owned, Walter...more
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