
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781636245843
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2025
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Illustrations: 9 maps, 1220 photographs
Description:
The Matanikau battles proved to be the critical turning points in the land campaign for Guadalcanal—the campaign's longest and bloodiest ground fight. A fivemonth conflict raged along the river and its basin. The real importance of this area has long remained unrecognized, yet the American and Japanese forces that fought over it knew that it wa the key to the ultimate prize of Henderson Airfield.