Island fighting
Edited by Rafael Steinberg
- Alexandria, Virginia Time-Life Books 1978
- 208 p
Includes Index and Bibliography
Operation shoestring -- Treadmill in Papua -- Up the Solomons Ladder -- Lessons in atoll warfare -- MacArthur's road back -- Book, sand and coral -- Picture essays: Calm before the storm ; The allies' eyes and ears ; A painful path to victory ; Kenney's Flying Devils ; The Tarawa killing ground ; The Navy's floating bases ; The agony of Peleliu ; The "Can do" Seabees.
The Guadalcanal campaign and the slow conquest of islands in the Pacific by U.S. forces during the last months of World War II. Part of the Time-Life series on World War II.