| Author/Contributor(s): | Marion, Ore J.; Cuddihy, Thomas; Cuddihy, Edward |
| Publisher: | Stackpole Books |
| Date: | 9/1/2026 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor, U.S. Marines landed on the Pacific Island of Guadalcanal. Their mission: to seize the airfield the enemy was building and stem the southward tide of the Imperial Japanese Army. Initially unopposed and ultimatrly triumphant, for four months these young soldiers engaged in a ferocious combat and endured debilitating heat, hunger, and disease. Sometimes with humor, always with brutal honesty, U.S. Marine Ore Marion takes readers into the jungle hell that was the Canal.