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A fast-paced and absorbing read of the final months of the vital Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War.

In providing a comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth (1814-1840) that reveals how his major poems contest poetic and political issues with his younger contemporaries (Keats, Shelley, Byron), this work intertwines literature and history showing that ideological conflicts between authors create dialogic encounters within their poetic texts.

"In November 1942, the fortunes of the US Navy in the Pacific War had reached their lowest point since Pearl Harbor. The Allied offensive in the South Pacific had stalled, and the battered US Navy had its back to the wall. It was only through the courage and the sheer perseverance of the sailors, the aviators, the soldiers, and the officers who commanded them, that the Allies could withstand the enemy onslaught and slowly push the Japanese out of Guadalcanal. During the tumultuous five months that followed, despite some missteps and misfortunes, American, Australian, and New Zealand forces labored to secure Guadalcanal and begin the drive up the Solomon Islands toward the Japanese fortress at Rabaul. This account gives fresh insight into the hard-fought and costly Allied victories in the First and Second Naval Battles of Guadalcanal, as well as the Battle of the Bismarck Sea in March 1943, during a campaign in which neither side gave any quarter"--Back cover.

Following on from his hugely successful book Rising Sun, Falling Skies, Jeffrey R. Cox tells the gripping story of the first Allied offensive of the Pacific War, as they sought to prevent Japan from cutting off Australia and regaining dominance in the Pacific.Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Solomon Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal.Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the US Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity and creativity thus far had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire. Starting with the amphibious assault on Savo Island, the campaign turned into an attritional struggle where the evenly matched foes sought to grind out a victory.

Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific - Borneo, Sumatra, and Java - in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign, where a small group of Americans, British, Dutch, and Australians were isolated in the Far East - and directly in the path of the Japanese onslaught. It was to be the first major sea battle of World War II in the Pacific.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of missions, focusing on Britain's role as a central hub. It explores the complexities and controversies surrounding missionary work, highlighting both the influence of British missions and their broader impact. Jeffrey Cox presents a balanced examination, offering insights into the motivations behind missions and their effects on various societies.