Guadalcanal campaign/Bibliography

• Alexander, Joseph H. Edson's Raiders: The 1st Marine Raider Battalion in World War II (2000). . Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-020-7.
• Bergerud, Eric M. Touched with Fire : The Land War in the South Pacific. (1997). ISBN 0-14-024696-7.

• Craven, Wesley Frank, and James Lea Cate, eds. The Army Air Forces in World War II: Vol. IV, The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944 official Air Force history online edition
• Dull, Paul S. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945. (1978). ISBN 0-87021-097-1.
• Frank, Richard. Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle. (1990). ISBN 0-394-58875-4. excerpt and text search
• Gillespie, Oliver A. The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939–1945 (1952); The Battle for the Solomons (Chapter 7) online edition
• Griffith, Samuel B. The Battle for Guadalcanal (1963). ISBN 0-252-06891-2.
• Hammel, Eric. Carrier Clash: The Invasion of Guadalcanal & The Battle of the Eastern Solomons August 1942. (1999). St. Paul, MN, USA: Zenith Press. 0760320527.
• Hammel, Eric Carrier Strike: The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942. Pacifica Press (1999). . ISBN 0-935553-37-1.
• Hough, Lieutenant Colonel Frank O., Major Verle E. Ludwig, USMC

and Henry I. Shaw, Jr. Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II: Volume I (1958), the official Marine Corps history complete text online

• Loxton, Bruce; Chris Coulthard-Clark (1997). The Shame of Savo: Anatomy of a Naval Disaster. Australia: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd. ISBN 1-86448-286-9.
• Lundstrom, John B. First Team And the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942. (2nd ed 2005) ISBN 1-59114-472-8.
• McGee, William L. The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville--Pacific War Turning Point, Volume 2 (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII). (2002). ISBN 0-9701678-7-3.
• Miller Jr., John. United States Army in World War II: Guadalcanal: the First Offensive (1949), the official Army history in the “Green” series; [online edition
• Miller, Thomas G. Cactus Air Force. (1969). ISBN 0-934841-17-9.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942 – February 1943, vol. 5 of his History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. (1958). ISBN 0-316-58305-7.
• Rottman, Gordon L. Japanese Army in World War II: The South Pacific and New Guinea, 1942-43 (2005). Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-870-7.
• Saltsman Jr., Ralph H. "The 67th Fighter Squadron 'Fighting Cocks' at Guadalcanal." Air Power History 47#4 (2000) pp 46+. online edition
• Smith, Michael T. Bloody Ridge: The Battle That Saved Guadalcanal. (2000). ISBN 0-7434-6321-8.

Primary sources

Tregaskis, Richard. Guadalcanal Diary (1943) ISBN 0-679-64023-1.

• Twining, Merrill B. No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal: the Memoir of Gen. Merrill B. Twining USMC (Ret.) (1996). online edition