Victory Fever on Guadalcanal: Japan's First Land Defeat of World War II (Volume 147) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) de Bartsch, William H - 2014-11-07

Texas A&M University Press, 2014. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, June 3 (sale item)* 360 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

>1st printing. Remainder stamp to endpaper, corner bumping, wear to rear panel of jacket

Texas A&M University Press. very nice copy . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2014.

Hardback. New. Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Americans captured the almost completed airfield for their own strategic use. The Japanese Army countered by sending to Guadalcanal a reinforced battalion under the command of Col. Kiyonao Ichiki. The attack that followed would prove to be the first of four attempts by the Japanese over six months to retake the airfield, resulting in some of the most vicious fighting of the Pacific War. During one such battle on the night of August 20-21, 1942, Marines wiped out Ichiki's men, who-imbued with "victory fever"-had expected a quick and easy victory. William H. Bartsch draws on correspondence, interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official war records, including those translated… Leer más

Texas A & M Univ Pr, 2014. Hardcover. New. 320 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.