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  From Robert Leckie, the Planet War II veteran and Ny Times-Bestselling writer of Helmet for My Pillow, whose encounters were highlighted in the HBO mini-series The Pacific, comes this vibrant story of the six -month strategy for Guadalcanal.   In the Western soldiers’ cautiously calculated—and fundamentally foiled—attempt to construct a number of impregnable island mansions on the floor for the determined efforts of the Americans who battled against a fierce foe and the temperature and landscape of the island itself, John Leckie catches the isolation, the pain, and heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both attributes are delivered to existence: General Archer Vandegrift, who first constructed an amphibious attack pressure; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose revolutionary technique was examined; the area-created Allied search Jacob Vouza, who lasted gruesome pain to discover the enemy’s ideas; and Saburo Sakai, the ace pamphlet who shot down American airplanes with amazing simplicity. Moving the Partners to ultimate triumph, Guadalcanal was certainly the turning-point of the battle.