Guadalcanal: Decision At Sea

Description for GUADALCANAL: DECISION AT SEA: THA NAVAL BATTLE OF GUADALCANL nOVEMBER 13-15, 1942 by Eric Hammel:

The third and final volume in Eric Hammel's highly acclaimed Guadalcanal series, GUADALCANAL: DECISION AT SEA is an entirely new examination in vivid detail of the Guadalcanal naval battle of November 13-15, 1942, a crucial step toward America's victory over the Japanese during World War II.

The three-day6 action was America's most decisive surface battle of the war and the only naval battle of this century in which American battleships directly confronted and mortally wounded an enemy battleship. This victory decided the future course of the war in the Pacific. Hammel has brilliantly blended the detailed historical records with personal accounts of many of the officers and enlisted men, creating an engrossing narrative of the strategy and struggle as seen by both sides. He has also included major new insights into crucial details of the battles, including a riveting account of the American forces' failure to effectively use their radar advantage.

This is the concluding volume in Eric Hammel's series of three independent books that focus on the Guadalcanal campaign and explore all the elements that made it a turning point of the war in the Pacific. GUADALCANAL: DECISION AT SEA lives up to the high standards and expectations that have marked this definitive historical trilogy.