Eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor, the Marines landed on Guadalcanal opening the first U.S. offensive of World War II.

“Enough gripping drama, heroism, and heartbreak in McGee’s almost encyclopedic work to supply Hollywood with material for a century.”
—Marine Corps League

$39.95, Softcover, 688 pages, 352 photos and illustrations, maps and charts, plus appendices, notes, bibliography and index, 6 x 9, ISBN 0-9701678-7-3, 2002.

“A thoroughgoing historical record and analysis that historians and scholars will find invaluable.” —Library Journal

“[The Solomons Campaigns] could well become the definitive work on the Solomons campaigns.”
—USS LCI National Association, Inc.

“…A masterwork of extensive research, brisk prose, and convincing analysis.”
—WWII History Magazine

The follow-up to The Amphibians Are Coming!, this second volume covers all the Solomons Campaigns and tells the story of America’s first offensive after Pearl Harbor. Part I, “The Southern Solomons Campaigns,” is excerpted from Volumes IV and V of distinguished naval historian Samuel Loring Morison’s History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, and covers the bloody six-month struggle for Guadalcanal.

“The result is a masterpiece…The indexes and appendices are the book’s crown jewels….”
- Leatherneck, Magazine of the Marines

Part II, “The Central Solomons Campaigns,” chronicles the amphibious operations in the New Georgia Islands group, including the five separate landings at Rendova, Segi Point, Viru Harbor, Wickham Anchorage, and Rice Anchorage. Part III, “The Northern Solomons Campaigns,” recounts the seizure of the Treasury Islands, the Choiseul Diversion, the Bougainville campaign, and sums up the many valuable lessons learned during the Solomons Campaigns—most becoming doctrine in later Pacific campaigns.