Knife's Edge: South Pacific Carrier Battles from the Eastern Solomons to Santa Cruz

by Robert C. Stern

While the resounding American victory at Midway in June 1942 blunted Japanese momentum to a great extent, it left the opposing forces precariously balanced, particularly in the South Pacific. In Knife's Edge Robert C. Stern provides an account of the Battles of the Eastern Solomons and the Santa Cruz Islands, the two pivotal carrier air battles that followed the initial engagements at the Coral Sea and Midway between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682475689
• ISBN13: 9781682475683
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"