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Guadalcanal Books
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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 7,285 ratings — published 2011
The Thin Red Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.00 — 14,348 ratings — published 1962
Guadalcanal Diary (Modern Library War)
by (shelved 7 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,314 ratings — published 1943
Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,221 ratings — published 1990
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles As Seen Through Japanese Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,213 ratings — published 1961
Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.56 — 310 ratings — published
Midnight in the Pacific: Guadalcanal—The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.45 — 526 ratings — published 2017
The Island: A History of the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal (America Reads: Rediscovered Fiction and Nonfiction from Key Periods in American History)
by (shelved 3 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 3.80 — 15 ratings — published 1979
Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Naval Campaign of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.38 — 266 ratings — published 2018
A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.32 — 817 ratings — published 2008
The Battle for Guadalcanal (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 3.78 — 80 ratings — published 1979
Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.23 — 443 ratings — published 2012
You'll Be Sor-ree: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.22 — 588 ratings — published 2010
This Is Guadalcanal: The Original Combat Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 3.65 — 20 ratings — published 1998
Guadalcanal 1942: The Marines Strike Back (Campaign, 18)
by (shelved 3 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 3.65 — 43 ratings — published 1992
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.62 — 6,912 ratings — published 2015
Guadalcanal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 3.84 — 79 ratings — published 1983
Chesty Puller: A Marine Legend in World War II (American War Heroes)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.51 — 67 ratings — published
On Valor's Side (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 8 ratings — published
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,592 ratings — published 2011
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,849 ratings — published 2022
Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,287 ratings — published 1962
Once a Marine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.24 — 29 ratings — published 1982
WW II: A Chronicle of Soldiering (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.11 — 133 ratings — published 1975
Carrier Clash: The Invasion of Guadalcanal & The Battle of the Eastern Solomons August 1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.12 — 67 ratings — published 1988
Under the Southern Cross: The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.10 — 73 ratings — published
Leatherneck Legends: Conversations With the Marine Corps' Old Breed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.17 — 24 ratings — published 2006
Bloodstained Sands: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II (General Military)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.08 — 36 ratings — published 2017
American Commando: Evans Carlson, His WW II Marine Raiders, and America's First Special Forces Mission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 3.98 — 128 ratings — published 2009
Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 3.60 — 324 ratings — published 2009
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.19 — 310 ratings — published 1996
US Marine vs Japanese Infantryman – Guadalcanal 1942–43 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 3.73 — 22 ratings — published 2014
Fight to the Death: Battle of Guadalcanal (Graphic History)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 3.00 — 32 ratings — published 2007
Bloody Ridge and Beyond: A World War II Marine's Memoir of Edson's Raiders in the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.42 — 259 ratings — published 2014
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,017 ratings — published 1961
The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise (Bluejacket Books)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.44 — 182 ratings — published 1962
Guadalcanal: The Carrier Battles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.24 — 33 ratings — published 1987
Guadalcanal: Starvation Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.31 — 125 ratings — published 1987
Guadalcanal Decision at Sea: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.25 — 105 ratings — published 1988
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,746 ratings — published 1957
The Cactus Air Force (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.19 — 68 ratings — published 1969
Guadalcanal Remembered (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published 1982
First Team and Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.58 — 98 ratings — published 1993
History of US Naval Operations in WWII 5: Struggle for Guadalcanal 8/42-2/43 (cloth)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.42 — 118 ratings — published 1949
No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.08 — 112 ratings — published 1994
1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,013 ratings — published 2005
The Solomon Curse (Fargo Adventure, #7)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,609 ratings — published 2015
Battle Cry (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,236 ratings — published 1953
Lewis "Chesty" Puller: A Brief History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published
The Leatherneck Boys: A Pfc at the Battle for Guadalcanal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as guadalcanal)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1994
“Whenever a soldier needed an escape, the antidote to anxiety, relief from boredom, a bit of laughter, inspiration, or hope, he cracked open a book and drank in the words that would transport him elsewhere.”
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“As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave.”
― The Thin Red Line
― The Thin Red Line
