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Every Shape, Every Shadow: A Novel of Guadalcanal Paperback – November 18, 2004

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SUPERANNO Midway and Iwo Jima get the glory, but it was at Guadalcanal where the Japanese army was finally stopped and where the U.S. road to victory in the Pacific truly began. The historical novel--Every Shape, Every Shadow--details this epic battle, one of the most important in American military history. This tribute to the unsung Marines who persevered on Guadalcanal is seen through the eyes of a bright, lonesome young Marine from the American Midwest. Original.

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267 pages
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English
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Pale Horse Productions
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November 18, 2004
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5 x 0.75 x 7.5 inches
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0971036292
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978-0971036291
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An historian and researcher by avocation, Roger L. Conlee is a former sportswriter, features staffer and copy editor for the Chicago Daily News and San Diego Union-Tribune. His articles have appeared in many major newspapers. He lives in San Diego, California.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pale Horse Productions (November 18, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 267 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0971036292
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0971036291
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.75 x 7.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #6,703,287 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #12,983 in Military Historical Fiction
- #37,152 in War Fiction (Books)
- #124,439 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction

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“Raggedy ass Marines”

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2020

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This is one of the battles that defined the United States Marine
Corps in World War Two. This book is fiction. However, it is one of the best books I have read about the Battle for Guadalcanal.
The characters are believable and the story is fast paced.
If you are interested in the fighting in the Pacific or the Marine Corps this is a must read. The Americans who fought in the battle it was “the Canal”. To the thousands of Imperial Japanese Army and the Japanese Marines that fought and died there it was called “Starvation Island “. Out of this battle came a Marine Corps Legend “Chesty Puller”. It was Colonel Puller coined the phrase “Raggedy Ass Marines”.Those young Marines that Chesty Puller Commanded destroyed the myth of the Japanese Army and Japanese Marines couldn’t be beat. As the Marines we’re leaving the Canal their uniforms were torn and hanging on their thin frames. Chesty Puller said he was proud of the Raggedy Ass Marines and the name stuck.
SEMPER FI!

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KEVIN C. DELAHANTY

I really wanted to like this book but...

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2010

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...it just didn't grab me.

Over the years I've read many books about WW2, fiction & non-fiction. This story just never took me "into the trenches." The tale revolves around a brief moment in time of a USMC protagonist who has an uncanny knack for being the originator of just about every well-recognized nickname that came out of the Guadalcanal operation: "Bloody Ridge", "Iron Bottom Sound", "Tokyo Express", "Guadalcanal Diary". After a while this literary technique became an irritant, distracting from the plot and demeaning the history. When the author introduces a USN nurse as the potential love interest, it was just about all I could do to finish the book. If I had the author's ear when he was writing I would have asked him what this character added to the storyline. For me it was an unnecessary decoration. I think I would have been more amenable to this ultimate rendez-vous if she was brought into the story much earlier rather than one-third of the way into the narrative. At this late stage in the tale you just knew her character was created to satisfy a forced situation.

Look, you may enjoy light reading. You may enjoy a superficial story about war. If you combine the two you may enjoy this book and that's great. I'm happy that you found something you enjoyed. All I'm saying is that this level and manner of story-telling didn't work for me.

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Mouthpiece

"Maline you die!!!!!"

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2006

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Good novel of Marines in combat on Guadalcanal in 1942, but I have read better. The book revolves around Pvt. Ken Nielsen and his platoon mates from the invasion to the decimation of the Japanese troops on the island. Platoon Sgt. Plunkett, a big man with the strength to break an enemy soldier's neck barehanded, leads his men well. John the Baptist, a devout Christian, has trouble reconciling the Fifth Commandment with his duty as a Marine. Scupper, whose father was killed at Pearl Harbor, is driven by a bloodlust for killing Japs and more Japs in revenge. Ninetrees, a Native American, can walk silently through the thickest jungle. Feel the terror of repelling banzai charges on Bloody Ridge as the Japs try to retake the airfield as well as patrols behind enemy lines. Pistol Pete, Washing Machine Charlie, the Tokyo Express - they are all in this book. I really like the perspective of some of the Japanese they are fighting. Strange that a novel this good would come out more than 60 years after the battle was fought. Worth the read.

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S. Mulholland

EVERY SHAPE, EVERY SHADOW

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2015

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Roger L. Conlee's first novel, EVERY SHAPE, EVERY SHADOW, introduces Kenny Nielsen, a young marine, and the challenges he faces in the epical battle at Guadacanal. Roger shares the spirit and integrity of Kenny and his fellow marines as they fight with courage against the Japanese and their unrelenting brutal attacks. Kenny comes of age at Guadacanal through Conlee's remarkable candour of warfare and Kenny's internal conflicts. History unfolds through the shapes and shadows depicted in this novel. Roger earned the Military Writers Society of America's 2004 Distinguished Honor Award for this one.

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nuwritr

good book, bad presentation

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2012

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No argument with the other posting re. quality of content BUT: The worst written-to-electronic form in 62 purchases. Presented format is broken up to the point of being unreadable, or nearly unreadable. Not used to decyphering sentence structure this bad, so will limit future purchases if they continue like this.

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Kirk Raeber

Enjoyable

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2019

Every Shape, Every Shadow is a very well written historical fiction. I enjoyed the entire book and it was hard to put down. The characters were very real and likable. The story of Guadalcanal is such an epic battle. Roger Conlee did a wonderful job describing the struggles the Marines had fighting this battle. I mostly recommend this very good novel.

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Rev. Bill McDonald Jr.

Historic WWII novel that reads like a non-fiction!

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2006

Author Roger Conlee is an avid historian, an excellent researcher and a gifted writer and he combines all his talents into producing a WWII classic story called "Every Shape, Every Shadow - A Novel of Guadalcanal". There are few war novels that rise to this level of expertise. He writes as if he were there among the men who lived and fought there. Not only that but he gives the reader views of the battle from both sides allowing us to learn something about the Japanese commanders as well. We even get to listen to Tokyo Rose broadcasting her propaganda to the troops about ready to do battle.

Conlee captures the feelings and sense of the battle that those who were there might have felt. He shares both some real and fictional letters home that give a more personal insight to those men and adds another layer of emotions to his story. The book feels like non-fiction and reads like a thrill action adventure tale of war. His use of dialogs helps us to get a better sense of who each character in the story is; and it carries the plot along effortlessly. His descriptions of the battle and inner sense of what happened there makes for riveting good reading. This is a page turner; you will not want to put it down until you have finished the book even if it well past your bed time.

There have been some really great books written about the heroics of WWII and now you can now add this one to that list. It is that good! It receives the MWSA's highest book rating of FIVE STARS!

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