Guadalcanal: Island Ordeal (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Campaign Book, No. 14)

158 pp. Since Pearl Harbor the Japanese had been advancing remorselessly. Guam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, Rabaul, Bougainville; all had fallen. Then Guadalcanal... the turning point. For six months the battle raged. A Japanese general maintained that the Japanese army lay buried in the graveyard of Guadalcanal.