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Lonely Vigil - Coastwatchers of the Solomons

By: Viking Press

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Viking Press)

Last Stocked on 1/9/2016

Product Info

Title
Lonely Vigil - Coastwatchers of the Solomons
Publisher
Category
Author
Walter Lord
Publish Year
1977
Pages
272
Dimensions
5.75x8.5x1"
NKG Part #
2147591935
Type
Hardcover

Description

This is a great story - largely untold - of the Pacific War. It is the first complete account of the Coastwatchers of the Solomons, that remarkable band of individualists who operated deep behind Japanese lines in the dark days of 1942-43. Living by their wits, with the help of friendly natives , they gave use our best intelligence, rescued our downed flyers, saved out men from their sinking ships - including Jon F. Kennedy's PT 109. In Admiral Halse's words, "The Coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal, and Guadalcanal saved the Pacific."