Richard Tregaskis

Guadalcanal Diary

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This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles--crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all, and to military history in general. Unlike some of those on Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942, Richard Tregaskis volunteered to be there. An on-location news correspondent (at the time, one of only two on Guadalcanal), he lived alongside the soldiers: sleeping on the ground--only to be awoken by air raids--eating the sometimes meager rations, and braving some of the most dangerous battlefields of World War II. He more than once narrowly escaped the enemy's fire, and so we have this incisive and exci… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Bowden, Mark

ISBN: 978-0-679-64023-3
EAN: 9780679640233
Produktnummer: 9219966
Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Seitenangabe: 272 S.

Über den Autor

Richard Tregaskis was a writer and reporter. He received the Overseas Press Club's George Polk Award in 1964 for first-person reporting under hazardous circumstances. He died in 1973.Moana Tregaskis was a longtime journalist for The New York Times.