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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 battlesand 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.
Ray E. Boomhower is the acclaimed author of twenty books, including biographies about some of the country's finest war correspondents such as Ernie Pyle, Richard Tregaskis, and Malcolm W. Browne.
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