Buy this book on-line BALLARD**, ROBERT D. with ARCHBOLD**, RICK: : THE LOST SHIPS OF GUADALCANAL: EXPLORING THE GHOST FLEET OF THE SOUTH PACIFICLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON/MADISON PRESS,1993. ISBN 0297813056.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour +b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges clean,contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,unblemished,publisher's original dark blue cloth bds with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate blue+white photographic eps.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 12-227pp [paginated] includes 7 chapters, profuse contemporary b/w+colour photographs,colour maps,b/w drawings, colour paintings,charts and diagrams, appendix,biblio and an index.
Iron Bottom Sound . . . it gets its name from all the ships that sank there.From August to November of 1942 the tropical waters off the small island of Guadalcanal were the scene of some of the fiercest sea battles of WWII.Fifty years later,Robert Ballard,the man who discovered the Titanic and the Bismarck,took his exploration team to Guadalcanal.Their goal was not one ship but an entire naval battlefield.On board were some of the men who had served on those ships that now lay beneath Iron Bottom Sound.The memories of these survivors help tell a powerful,poignant story of men and ships and war.
'The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal'
re-creates the whole story of the campaign that changed the course of the Pacific war.For all the fame of its air and land battles,Guadalcanal is also a compelling story of sailors and warships.In fact,more Americans died in Guadalcanal waters than on land.
The terror and confusion of night naval action is conveyed here in gripping chapters that describe first the bitter American defeat in the Battle of Savo Island and then the struggle to eventual victory in the climactic Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.We then descend in Ballard's submarine to view scenes of American, Australian,and Japanese ships lying together on the ocean floor,their guns still eerily pointing at each other.With over 300 illustrations,this book has all the pictorial richness that helped make bestsellers of Ballard's two previous books,'The Discovery of the Titanic',and 'The Discovery of the Bismarck'.
Haunting pictures of the wrecks are paired with photographs of the ships in their prime; a spectacular full-page foldout reveals the USS Quincy and the Canberra,painted in accurate detail by maritime artist Ken Marschall.Full-colour maps and diagrams plus a host of paintings and present-day photographs help to both re-create this extraordinary chapter in the history of the Pacific war and convey the excitement of modern underwater exploration.
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