Neptune's inferno : the U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, James D. Hornfischer

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Neptune's inferno : the U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, James D. Hornfischer

Title remainder

the U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

Statement of responsibility

James D. Hornfischer

Instantiates

• Neptune's inferno : the U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

Publication

• New York, Bantam Books, c2011

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-489) and index

Contents

Eight-two ships -- Sea of troubles. Trip wire ; A great gray fleet ; The first D-Day ; Nothing worthy of Your Majesty's attention ; Fly the carriers ; A captain in the fog ; The martyring of Task Group 62.6 ; Burning in the rain -- Fighting fleet rising. A new kind of fight ; The Tokyo Express ; A function at the junction ; What they were build for ;The warriors ; The devil may care ;The visit ; Night of a new moon ; Pulling the trigger ; "Pour it to 'em" -- Storm tide. All hell's eve ; The weight of a war ; Enter fighting ; "Strike-- repeat, strike" ; Santa Cruz ; Secret history ; Turner's choice ; Suicide ; Black Friday ; Into the light ; The killing salvo ; Death in the Machine Age ; Point blank ; Among the shadows ; Atlanta burning ; Cruiser in the sky ; Regardless of losses -- The thundering. The giants ride ; The gun club ; The kind of men who win a war ; On the spot ; The futility of learning ; Future rising ; Report and echo ; The opinion of convening authority ; Ironbottom Sound -- Ships and aircraft types of the Guadalcanal Campaign -- Naval battles of the Guadalcanal Campaign -- Total naval losses at Guadalcanal

Dimensions

25 cm.

Edition

1st ed.

Extent

xxii, 516 p., [32] p. of plates

Isbn

9780553806700

Lccn

2010027231

Other physical details

ill., maps, ports.

Record ID

723035

System control number

• (OCoLC)ocn613432356
• 1792061