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A Time of War : Remembering Guadalcanal, A Battle Without Maps / William H. Whyte.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whyte, William H., Jr., 1917-1999, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A memoir by William H. Whyte. The battle for control of Guadalcanal in 1942 and what the Americans learned from it forms the heart of the book. The battle was the first real test of land combat between the United States and Japan.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Getting Ready
- 2 Joining Up
- 3 Shipping Out
- 4 Making a Landing
- 5 Meeting the Enemy
- 6 Fighting the Enemy
- 7 Patrolling
- 8 Our Turn
- 9 Winding Down
- 10 Recuperating
- 11 Teaching
- 12 Thereafter
- Appendix A: Hyakutake Meets the Marines
- Appendix B: Pacific Fleet Chain of Command
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-9508-7
- OCLC:
- 1301548094
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