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Victory Fever on Guadalcanal: Japan's First Land Defeat of World War II
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by William H. Bartsch


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Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Americans captured the almost completed airfield for their own strategic use.

The Japanese Army countered by sending to Guadalcanal a reinforced battalion under the command of Col. Kiyonao Ichiki. The attack that followed would prove to be the first of four attempts by the Japanese over six months to retake the airfield, resulting in some of the most vicious fighting of the Pacific War.

During the initial battle on the night of August 20-21, 1942, Marines wiped out Ichiki's men, who--imbued with "victory fever"--had expected a quick and easy victory.
William H. Bartsch draws on correspondence, interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official war records, including those translated from Japanese sources, to offer an intensely human narrative of the failed attempt to recapture Guadalcanal's vital airfield.

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  • Title Victory Fever on Guadalcanal: Japan's First Land Defeat of World War II
  • Author William H. Bartsch
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Texas A&M University Press
  • Date 2014
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781623491840 / 1623491843
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 16.51 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014011246
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

About the author

WILLIAM H. BARTSCH, a former United Nations development economist and independent consultant now exclusively researching and writing on the Pacific War, lives in Reston, Virginia. He is the author of three previous books published by Texas A&M University Press: Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots on the Philippines, 1941-1942, December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor, and Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942.
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