702 records matched your query
02614aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 EEA93E0EC93011E88539171297128E48 003 SILO 005 20181006010511 008 161226s2018 enkabf 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1472826388 020 $a 9781472826381 035 $a (OCoLC)967072345 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d HRF $d UAP $d UIB $d SILO 043 $a p------ $a p------ 082 04 $a 940.54/265933 $2 23 100 1 $a Cox, Jeffrey R., $e author. 245 10 $a Morning star, midnight sun : $b the early Guadalcanal-Solomons campaign of World War II, August-October 1942 / $c Jeffrey R. Cox. 264 1 $a Oxford, UK : $b Osprey Publishing, $c 2018. 300 $a 448 pages, 16 unnumbered of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliography (pages 435-439) and index. 505 0 $a Visitors -- Fighting the problem -- Makee Learnee -- The sleeping watch -- Pandaemonium -- Is he lucky? -- Pride Goeth... -- "Why not?" -- "I am Aoba" -- All hell's Eve -- The lion comes -- Not quite midway -- And then there was one -- Far from satisfactory, far from hopeless. 520 $a Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Soloman Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal. Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the US Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity and creativity thus far had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire. Starting with the amphibious assault on Savo Island, the campaign turned into an attritional struggle where the evenly matched foes sought to grind out a victory. Following on from his hugely successful book Rising Sun, Falling Skies, Jeffrey R. Cox tells the gripping story of the first Allied offensive of the Pacific War, as they sought to prevent Japan from cutting off Australia and regaining dominance in the Pacific. 650 0 $a Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Pacific Ocean. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Naval operations, Japanese. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Naval operations, American. 941 $a 2 952 $l FQPC224 $d 20200903010311.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006113637.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EEA93E0EC93011E88539171297128E48 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search