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This was the successful efforts by the United States Army Signals Intelligence Section and the Navy Communication Special Unit to monitor, intercept, decode and translate Japanese messages. It was thanks in part to this intelligence breakthrough that victory was secured at the Battles of Empress Augusta Bay and Cape St. George as well as the bitterly contested Bougainville invasion. But it was also due to improvements in strategic and tactical doctrine on the part of the US Navy, so much so that the Battle of Cape St. George was dubbed the almost textbook-perfect battle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At the start of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign the US Navy was the underdog. By its conclusion, US naval commanders had come of age. 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Now the Allies sought to keep the offensive momentum won at such a high cost. Determined not to repeat their mistakes at Guadalcanal, the Allies nonetheless faltered in their continuing efforts to roll back the Japanese land, air and naval forces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDark Waters, Starry Skies \u003c\/i\u003eis an engrossing history which weaves together strategy and tactics with a blow-by-blow account of every battle at a vital point in the Pacific War that has not been analyzed in this level of detail before. Using first-hand accounts from both sides, this book vividly recreates all the terror and drama of the nighttime naval battles during this phase of the Solomons campaign and the ferocious firestorm many Marines faced as they disembarked from their landing craft. The reader is transported to the bridge to stand alongside Admiral Walden Ainsworth as he sails to stop another Japanese reinforcement convoy for New Georgia, and vividly feels the fear of an 18-year-old Marine as he fights for survival against a weakened but still determined enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56300146491765,"sku":"9781472849878","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781472849878_dbd2d2e6-f65b-4f0d-bbfd-bf1a434bfa88.jpg?v=1786020924"},{"product_id":"9781472810601","title":"Rising Sun, Falling Skies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor Jeffrey Cox conducts a thorough and compelling investigation of the Java Sea Campaign, the first major sea battle of the Pacific War, which inflicted huge costs on the Allies and set the stage for Japan’s rout across the Pacific and Indian oceans.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. The Japanese forces then continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific in their own blitzkrieg offensive. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAllied losses in these early months after America’s entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign, where a small group of Americans, British, Dutch, and Australians were isolated in the Far East – directly in the path of the Japanese onslaught.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would be the first major sea battle of World War II in the Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301106528629,"sku":"9781472810601","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781472810601_154eb7ba-e900-468d-b0f1-60a4f3ee8428.jpg?v=1786020425"},{"product_id":"9781472826428","title":"Morning Star, Midnight Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive and dramatic re-telling of the Guadalcanal and Solomons naval campaign – the daring Allied offensive to protect Australia and the South Pacific from Japanese invasion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Solomon Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the US Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity and creativity thus far had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire. Starting with the amphibious assault on Savo Island, the campaign turned into an attritional struggle where the evenly matched foes sought to grind out a victory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Following on from his hugely successful book \u003ci\u003eRising Sun, Falling Skies\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeffrey R. 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From this point on, although the war was still a long way from being won, the American star was unquestionably on the ascendant, slowly, but surely, edging Japanese imperialism towards its sunset.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Cox’s analysis and attention to detail of even the smallest events are second to none. 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