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A very underrated book which proves American courage to the outside world.

“The naval battles for Guadalcanal in 1942 have no parallel in the history of warfare. Over a period of six long months there was an almost continuous slaughter of ships and men. The material losses to the United States in both men and ships were immense, yet they battled on relentlessly to eventual triumph.
With the closing of the Japanese campaign to retake Guadalcanal, Japan’s doom was sealed and the skills the America’s had learned there were to lead them to their later victories in the Pacific War. How these skills were acquired and at what cost are expertly analysed in this reconstruction of events.”

Review: Well written. Not verbose as many “campaign” accounts are. Stewart brings an “outsider’s” — British — view of the action that US / American accounts don’t have. He admirably points out why “Yamamoto” needed a KO — he knew that Japan could not out produce and out train the US. The U.S. Strategic Bombing surveys confirm Stewart’s viewpoint that 1943 was the “peak” of the Japanese war effort. After that, it was all downhill.