Hornfischer James D. Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

Bantam Books, 2011. — 516 p.Draws on interviews with veterans and primary sources to present a narrative account of the pivotal World War II campaign, chronicling the three-month effort to gain control of Guadalcanal (in 1942) as a battle that taught the U.S. Navy and Marines new approaches to warfare.