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Bloody Ridge: The Battle That Saved Guadalcanal Mass Market Paperback – January 28, 2003

by Michael T. Smith (Author)

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September 1942: American forces landed on the island of Guadalcanal, engaging the entrenched Japanese in what would be remembered as some of the worst fighting of World War II. The key to victory lay in controlling the ridge overlooking Henderson Field, a vital airfield and the prize of the Guadalcanal campaign.

This was the site of a savage, three-day clash that would test the mettle of both sides. Launching a series of vicious attacks on successive nights, a vastly superior force of battle-hardened Japanese somehow lost to a mongrel battalion of Col. "Red Mike" Edson's malnourished, sickly Marines in what became known as the Battle of Bloody Ridge. The surprising victory marked the first significant Japanese defeat in the war, saved the airfield, and gave the small, under-supplied American force time to receive supplies and reinforcements.

This is the true story of that harrowing battle, when the fate of the war in the Pacific would rest with those who were tough enough to take Bloody Ridge.

INCLUDES BATTLE MAPS AND HISTORICAL PHOTOS

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Veterans Voice One of the turning points of the Second World War is ably described. -- Review

About the Author

Michael S. Smith is an active duty naval officer and a life-long student of the Guadalcanal campaign. A communications expert, Smith has served in the U.S. Navy for more than twenty years and is currently stationed in Washington State, where he lives with his wife and four sons. Bloody Ridge is his first book.

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Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Pocket (January 28, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743463218
ISBN-13: 978-0743463218
Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 1.3 x 4.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 20 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,220,593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #19687 in Books > History > Military > World War II
- #22004 in Books > History > Military > United States

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Good read the book has a feel of a story ...

ByRandy Bon September 10, 2015

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Good read the book has a feel of a story and not the feel of a history book. Mr Smith has done some awesome research of combatants from both sides, diaries, other authors, and archives of the marines plus Japanese army. What i took away from this read is how fortunately the American victory was.

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Excellent account of the battles that turned the ground war in the Pacific

ByWTB, IIIon October 24, 2016

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A little too technical for smooth reading, but otherwise, very accurate and educational. I highly recommend it to all history buffs.

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Semper Fi

ByBarry Foxon January 3, 2014

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You really begin to understand how tenous our hold on Guadalcanal was , had we lost that battle it would have been a unmitigated disaster . Thank God for the greatest generation in this case the First Marine Division they did their duty and they did it well !!!