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Title: The Battle of Cape Esperance: Encounter at Guadalcanal by Charles O. Cook ISBN: 1-55750-126-2 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: December, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A battle won by the U. S. Navy in the Solomons.
Comment: A nice little book about a battle between U.S. and Imperial Japanese Navy ships in Iron Bottom Sound. During this brief encounter the U.S. Navy sunk a Japanese cruiser and destroyer at a cost of a destroyer. Subsequent action by airplanes out of Henderson sunk an additional two Japanese destroyers.
Cook was a participant in this battle and goes into great detail about what happened. The U.S. Navy which had been rather lackluster up to this point, showed they were brave and ready to confront equal or superior forces. The result was the Japanese were bested in this battle, with moderate losses. They withdrew after completing their mission.
Since the book is short at only 150 pages, the reader can easily read this in a few hours and understand a little on the Guadalcanal campaign, especially the naval side.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent account of an overlooked battle.
Comment: Popular mythology of the Solomons Campaign holds that the Japanese Navy was invincible at night and hopelessly outclassed the United States Navy. Read the average account of the battles in the Slot and you come away with the impression that the Japanese won them all, or at least all up until Second Guadalcanal.
Cook's book provides a fine, straightforward narrative of one of the early engagements which the US Navy, in fact, won. It's a readable, exciting book which also contains information useful to serious students of the war and campaign.
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Title: The Naked Warriors : The Elite Fighting Force That Became The Navy Seals by Francis D. Fane ISBN: 0312959850 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Voice from the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech (Classics of Naval Literature Series) by Samuel Leech, Michael Crawford, Richard Henry Dana ISBN: 1557501920 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War by Edward J. Marolda, Robert John, Jr. Schneller, William S. Dudley ISBN: 1557504857 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: The Last Patrol by Harry Holmes ISBN: 1557504784 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War by Ivan Musicant ISBN: 0785812105 Publisher: Castle Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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