Richard Tregaskis: Reporting Under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam

by Ray E. Boomhower

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826366996
• ISBN13: 9780826366993
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: High Road Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"