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Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II AugustOctober 1942

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Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went at the offensive within the Pacific in a desperate try to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging around the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Soloman Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal.

Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic frame of mind, the U.S. Navy needed to adapt at the fly with a purpose to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity and creativity so far had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire. Starting with the amphibious assault on Savo Island, the campaign become an attritional struggle where the frivolously matched foes sought to grind out a victory.

Following on from his hugely successful book Rising Sun, Falling Skies, Jeffrey R. Cox tells the gripping story of the first Allied offensive of the Pacific War, as they sought to prevent Japan from cutting off Australia and regaining dominance within the Pacific.

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