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A part of our heritage,
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This review is from: Guadalcanal Diary (Modern Library War) (Paperback)
Richard Tregaskis, a 24-year-old reporter, went ashore with the 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal. He lived with the men, sleeping on the ground and eating the same chow. He remained on that nightmarish piece of coral for 50 days, usually under combat conditions. His retelling of the engagement along the Tenaru is as good or better than other first hand reports. His description of the several days of combat on Edson's Ridge was excellent, as he had moved his tent to that elevated location the morning of the first day. With an eye toward the readers' morale, losses of flights at Henderson Field were not reported as accurately as they could have been. As many as seven aircraft had crashed on take off while he was still on the island. Tregaskis left the island before the major battles on the Matanikau or the desperate fight for Henderson Field, but he had his story. He had seen the boys of democracy turn back the seemingly invincible Japanese Army; he had seen some of our flyers defeat the unstoppable Zeros; he had seen our navy hold their own against the designers of the attack on Pearl Harbor and he hurried home to tell the American public. This book was started aboard a B-24 before he returned home and was an instant best seller. This was a first hand reporting of our first offensive engagement of WW II. A nation hungry for news of the front greeted it eagerly. Not even the casual reader of WW II can bypass this major work, if for no other reason than the place it holds in the history of the war in it's own right.
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
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Omitted all Photographs and Maps!,
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Guadalcanal Diary now sold by Modern Library as Hardcover is an all print softcover with a hardbound cover. Shame on Randomhouse for their cheap Subsidiary version from Modern Library's reprint of this Classic. Had I known this book came without the photo's and maps I would not have purchased it. We waited 7 months for backorder and is needed for college report so we can't return it this late in the game. Find an edition with photographs and maps included!!
John P Patterson NYC, NY
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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disappointed in the recent publications of diary,
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when i was a young man my father gave me a copy of Guadalcanal Diary and i literally wore it out, and in fifty years it has gone
i purchased a new copy in the hardbound edition no photos no index no bibliography only the minimum of print to enable it to be published really disappointed that this great manuscript was treated so badly a very very close friend of my Dad, Ken Bailey was included in the book as he won the MOH one more thing i am not critical of the authors words only in how the publisher cheaped out the book
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