Hell's Islands : The Untold Story of Guadalcanal.

Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Hell's Islands -- 1 The Eve of World War II -- 2 The Enemy at the Doorstep -- 3 Flying Before the Storm -- 4 The Japanese in the Southern Solomons, May-August 1942 -- 5 Preparing for Battle -- 6 The Early Air War -- 7 Day One, Guadalcanal -- 8 Day One: Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo -- 9 Day Two: Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo -- 10 Guadalcanal: Hanging On -- 11 Bloody September -- 12 Black October -- 13 A River Too Far -- 14 War in the Outer Islands -- 15 The U.S. Army Takes Over -- 16 The Ke-go Operation -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 Telegram to U.S. Navy Forces, 4 August 1942 -- Appendix 2 Japanese Naval Forces in the Southern Solomons -- Appendix 3 Japanese 2nd Infantry Division -- Appendix 4 The Japanese Seventeenth Army Group -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Special Acknowledgments -- Index.