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Using The Last Stand of the Tin-Can Sailors and Dispatch of Spirits, James D. Hornfischer produced enduring and important stories about America’s World-War II Navy, works of distinctive immediacy recognized by abundant pictures of normal guys in distinctive fresh info and extremis. Today he does exactly the same for the deadliest, most critical naval strategy of the Pacific war: Guadalcanal.Neptune’s Inferno reaches when the most epic and the most personal account ever published of the competition for control of the seaways of the Solomon Islands, America’s first serious offensive from the Imperial Japanese juggernaut and the real turning-point of the Pacific struggle. This harsh, protracted strategy is definitely heralded as a Maritime triumph.