Guadalcanal Diary (Landmark Books, Number 55).

New York:: Random House, 1955.. 4th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with title and series device printed on the front cover; the top edge tint is yellow; a severe spine slant, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Index. Landmark endpapers with two-color scenes. Description: Includes a short section of black and white photo plates. This is Number 55 in the Landmark Books series. The Landmark series presents historic and biographical books for young readers, designed to hold the attention as well as to inform. Lives of outstanding people and topics of interest in American and world history are presented in story form with illustrations. Richard Tregaskis was a war correspondent who was with the marines when they landed on Guadalcanal in the summer of 1942. For seven crucial weeks he ate, slept, and sweated with the front line units. He also kept a diary, in which he described the island's occupation and the defense of that seven mile strip against innumerable attacks by superior air, land and sea forces. That remarkable diary became a Book of the Month selection in 1943 and was a best seller. For this shorter Landmark edition the author has written extra chapters to tell how the battle for Guadalcanal fitted into the history of the war in the Pacific. Tregaskis also wrote one other book in the Landmark series -- John F. Kennedy & PT 109.