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Dark Waters, Starry Skies

Autor Jeffrey Cox
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mar 2025
Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War.

Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally managed to complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese in early 1943. Now the Allies sought to keep the offensive momentum won at such a high cost. Determined not to repeat their mistakes at Guadalcanal, the Allies nonetheless faltered in their continuing efforts to roll back the Japanese land, air and naval forces.

Dark Waters, Starry Skies is an engrossing history which weaves together strategy and tactics with a blow-by-blow account of every battle at a vital point in the Pacific War that has not been analyzed in this level of detail before. Using first-hand accounts from both sides, this book vividly recreates all the terror and drama of the nighttime naval battles during this phase of the Solomons campaign and the ferocious firestorm many Marines faced as they disembarked from their landing craft. The reader is transported to the bridge to stand alongside Admiral Walden Ainsworth as he sails to stop another Japanese reinforcement convoy for New Georgia, and vividly feels the fear of an 18-year-old Marine as he fights for survival against a weakened but still determined enemy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472849878
ISBN-10: 1472849876
Pagini: 528
Ilustrații: Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white and colour photographs.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 232 x 42 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Prologue: Via Dolorosa
I. Akikaze
II. Putting the Cartwheel Before the Horse
III. I-Go
IV. Magic in the Air
V. Where Sea Eagles Dare
VI. Parthian Shots
VII. Quagmire
VIII. The Hop
IX. Dominoes
Epilogue: The Akikaze Resunk

Recenzii

Drawing on vivid recollections from participants in the great struggle for the Solomons and from other primary sources, Cox delivers a fast-paced, detailed and highly readable account of the pivotal struggle in the South Pacific. The reader will find Dark Waters, Starry Skies a rich and rewarding experience.
This is an excellent book, providing a highly detailed and engaging account of the Solomons campaign.
a well-researched and engagingly written account of a crucial period in the Pacific War

Caracteristici

While the Guadalcanal campaign is well known, relatively little attention has been paid to the Solomons campaign and how the two are interlinked. Combining a forensic eye for detail with a novelist's flair for drama, Cox redresses this imbalance in an engaging and fast-paced new history.

Notă biografică

Jeffrey R. Cox is a litigation attorney and an independent military historian. A student of history, international affairs, and defence policy for most of his life, his first book was the critically acclaimed Rising Star, Falling Skies (2014) about the Java Sea campaign. This was followed by two volumes on the Guadalcanal-Solomons campaign: Morning Star, Midnight Sun (2018) and Blazing Star, Setting Sun (2020). He resides in Indianapolis.