On August 7, 1942, Japan received an urgent alert that Allied forces had begun an invasion of the Solomon Islands and Guadalcanal. In response, Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa and his fleet rushed ...

and the invasion of Guadalcanal and its immediate aftermath. Lundstrom has researched this period extensively for his former works and this one. He uses as sources the surviving staff logs of Fletcher ...

Guadalcanal was a six-month campaign where two things were broken: the back of Japan’s naval aviation, and the myth of Japanese superiority in jungle warfare. The book provides much more detail than ...