Battleground - W. E. B. Griffin

Book Four in the continuing saga of The Corps, from the author of Counterattack which became an immediate national bestseller in hardcover. The Corps combines the best elements of military history and the war story, wrote Publishers Weekly, the telling detail and political tangle of one mated to the energy and sweep of the other. Here is a story of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Pacific, the epic struggle for Guadalcanal.

W.E.B. Griffin is a bestselling phenomenom, an American master of authentic military action and drama! Now, in this electrifying new novel, he reveals the story of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Pacific, the epic struggle for Guadalcanal...Daredevil pilot Charles Galloway learns the hard way how to command a fighter squadron.

Lt. Joe Howard teams up with the Coastwatchers. Jack No Middle Initial Stecker leads his infantry battalion into the thickest of fighting, at a terrible price.

And Navy Captain Pickering grabs a helmet and rifle to join the ranks at Guadalcanal...