This ebook features an illustrated biography of Richard Tregaskis including rare images from the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming. godine u kojoj je opisao svoja iskustva ratnog dopisnika na otoku Guadalcanal za vrijeme prvih tjedana Guadalcanalske kampanje u Drugom svjetskom ratu.

Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the literary events of its time,” it is a masterpiece of war journalism whose influence can be found in classic works such as John Hersey’s Hiroshima, Michael Herr’s Dispatches, and Dexter Filkins’s The Forever War. august 1973) bio je ameriki novinar i knjievnik, najpoznatiji po knjizi Guadalcanal Diary iz 1943. In understated yet graceful prose, Tregaskis details the first two months of the campaign and describes the courage and camaraderie of young marines who prepared for battle knowing that one in four of them wouldn’t make it home.Īn instant bestseller when it was first published in 1943 and the basis for a popular film of the same name, Guadalcanal Diary set the standard for World War II reportage. He risked life and limb to give American readers a soldier’s experience of the war in the Pacific, from the suffocating heat and humidity to the unique terror of fighting in tall, razor-sharp grass and in crocodile-infested jungle streams against a concealed enemy. Developed by the US Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in collaboration with North American Aviation, the X-15 was sleek, black, and powerfula missile with stubby wings and a cockpit on the nose. Volunteer combat correspondent Richard Tregaskis was one of only two journalists on hand to witness the invasion of Guadalcanal. First tested in 1959, the X-15 rocket plane was at the forefront of the space race. It was the first major Allied offensive against Japanese forces the first time in history that a combined air, land, and sea assault had ever been attempted and, after six months of vicious fighting, a crushing defeat for the Empire of Japan and a major turning point in the Pacific War.

On August 7, 1942, eleven thousand US Marines landed on Tulagi and Guadalcanal Islands in the South Pacific. #1 New York Times Bestseller: A “superb” eyewitness account of one of the bloodiest and most pivotal battles of World War II (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down).

X-15 Diary by Richard Tregaskis