No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal

It was one of the most difficult campaigns in the long and valorous history of the United States Marine Corps, indeed in the entire history
of World War II. Twining saw it as operations officer of the key U.S. ground unit, the First Marine Division. What he saw and recountsu

for the first time in any book-was a campaign in which a semitrained and understrength division was flung into battle, and somehow not
only surived but prevailed. Those marines had to fight the Japanese, the jungle, tropical diseases, uncertain supplies, inept commanders
(some of them even members ofTwining’s beloved marines), and a host of other adversaries. In the end, Japanese Maj. Gen. Kawaguchi
said: “Guadalcanal is not the name of an island. It is the name of the graveyard of the Japanese army.”