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In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis. Tregaskis was one of only two civilian reporters to land and stay with the marines, and in his notebook he captured the daily and nightly terrors faced by American forces in one of World War II's most legendary battles - and it served as the premise for his bestselling book, Guadalcanal Diary.
One of the most distinguished combat reporters to cover World War II, Tregaskis later reported on Cold War conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. In 1964 the Overseas Press Club recognized his first-person reporting under hazardous circumstances by awarding him its George Polk Award for his book Vietnam Diary. Boomhower's riveting book is the first to tell Tregaskis's gripping life story, concentrating on his intrepid reporting experiences during World War II and his fascination with war and its effect on the men who fought it.
Contents
Prologue
Introduction. 'A Living Nightmare'
Chapter 1. A Crusade for Ideals and Survival
Chapter 2. Wartime in Paradise
Chapter 3. Reporting from Shangri-La
Chapter 4. The Correspondent and the 'Fighting Lady'
Chapter 5. 'The Danger of Sudden Death'
Chapter 6. 'The Most Intense Excitement in the World'
Chapter 7. Operation Shoestring
Chapter 8. The Canal
Chapter 9. The Reporter and the Raiders
Chapter 10. Guadalcanal Diary
Chapter 11. Operation Cleanslate
Chapter 12. Sicily: Gateway to a Continent
Chapter 13. 'A Grotesque Apparition'
Chapter 14. Charlemagne's City
Chapter 15. Superfortress Number 688
Chapter 16. 'the glories of peace'
Chapter 17. 'Something Dangerous and New, and Strange'
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
