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Mark Stille: Guadalcanal 1942-43 [2015] paperback BOOKT big and smallThe Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air, and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated the last of their forces from the island in 1943, it was clear that the tide of the war had turned. The inexorable Japanese advance and the myth of Japanese invincibility shattered. In this new study of the