“Brilliant...an enormous work based on the most meticulous research.”—LA Times Book Review The battle at Guadalcanal—which began eight months to the day

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 Ja

In publishing the history of combat operations the Department of the Army has three objectives. The first is to provide the Army itself with an accurate and tim

On August 7, 1942, a scant nine months after Pearl Harbor, the Marine Corps struck back against Japan on a small island half a world away: Guadalcanal, in the S