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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Leckie, Robert, 1920-2001.     Subjects     World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Solomon Islands -- Guadalcanal Island.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Leckie, Robert, 1920-2001.       by title:      Challenge for the Pa...         MARC Display

Challenge for the Pacific [electronic resource] : Guadalcanal, the turning point of the war / Robert Leckie. by Leckie, Robert, 1920-2001. New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2010, c1965. Subjects World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Solomon Islands -- Guadalcanal Island. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=90559893-FD76-4B5A-BEA2-460DB5F417EA This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/905/598/93/ChallengeforthePacificGuadalcanalTheT9780553908244.epub Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=90559893-FD76-4B5A-BEA2-460DB5F417EA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{90559893-FD76-4B5A-BEA2-460DB5F417EA}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780553908244 (electronic bk.) 0553908243 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (362 p.) : maps. Edition:  Bantam Books trade paperback ed. Requests:  0 Summary:  From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal. From the Japanese soldiers' carefully calculated'and ultimately foiled'attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemy's plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease. Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war. Challenge for the Pacific is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that forever changed our world. From the Trade Paperback edition.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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