Midnight in the Pacific: Guadalcanal -- The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War

by Joseph Wheelan

Book Overview

A sweeping narrative history -- the first in over twenty years -- of America's first major offensive of World War II, the brutal, no-quarter-given campaign to take Japanese-occupied Guadalcanal

From early August until mid-November of 1942, US Marines, sailors, and pilots struggled for dominance against an implacable enemy: Japanese soldiers, inculcated with the bushido tradition of death before dishonor, avatars of bayonet combat...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306824590
• ISBN13: 9780306824593
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"