Read By: Robertson Dean

With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James
D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America.s
World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits
of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does
the same for the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific
war: Guadalcanal.

Neptune.s Inferno is at once the most epic and the most intimate account
ever written of the contest for control of the seaways of the Solomon
Islands, America.s first concerted offensive against the Imperial Japanese
juggernaut and the true turning point of the Pacific conflict. This
grim, protracted campaign has long been heralded as a Marine victory.
Now, with his powerful portrait of the Navy.s sacrifice - three sailors
died at sea for every man lost ashore - Hornfischer tells for the first
time the full story of the men who fought in destroyers, cruisers, and
battleships in the narrow, deadly waters of .Ironbottom Sound.. Here,
in brilliant cinematic detail, are the seven major naval actions that
began in August of 1942, a time when the war seemed unwinnable and America
fought on a shoestring, with the outcome always in doubt. But at Guadalcanal
the U.S. proved it had the implacable will to match the Imperial war
machine blow for violent blow.

Working from new interviews with survivors, unpublished eyewitness accounts,
and newly available documents, Hornfischer paints a vivid picture of
the officers and enlisted men who took on the Japanese in America.s
hour of need.

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