Guadalcanal Diary (Landmark Books) - Softcover

Tregaskis, Richard

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9780394862682: Guadalcanal Diary (Landmark Books)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394862686 ISBN 13: 9780394862682

Publisher: Random House Childrens Books, 1984

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Offers an eyewitness account of the U.S. Marines' struggle to regain control of Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands from the Japanese

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A superb example of war reporting at its best. --From the Introduction by Mark Bowden

The book's secret is the simple secret of all good reporting--fidelity and detail. --Time

About the Author:

Richard Tregaskis (1916-73) was a noted correspondent and writer who reported on several wars, including the Second World War and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. His books include "Guadalcanal Diary," Flint Whitlock is a co-founder of the Colorado Military History Museum and the author of "The Rock of Anzio: From Sicily to Dachau--A History of the Forty-fifth Infantry Division and Soldiers on Skis: A Pictorial Memoir of the Tenth Mountain Division,"

Tregaskis wrote regularly on Hawaii for the New York Times Sunday travel section. Before concentrating on travel, she spent years as a correspondent traveling the Pacific and high mountain areas of Asia. Trained in war coverage by one of America's famous war correspondents, she covered wars on the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia for news services and is a member of the Overseas Press Club of America.

Mark Bowden is a noted body language expert, master of non-verbal and verbal communication, and a leader in the techniques of influence. The creator of TruthPlane, a unique model of training for anyone who has to communicate to an audience, his techniques are used now by top executives and political leaders across the globe. Mark gained his university degree in performance in the UK, and studied the gesture control methods of Jacques Lecoq's Laboratory of Movement, Paris; he has worked with leading practitioners of movement psychology and built upon the influence techniques of Dr. Milton Erickson. He holds a reputation as one of the UK's expert performance trainers, lecturing on performance at Drama Academies and Universities throughout the UK and across the world including RADA, Oxford and Cambridge; he is a highly sought after trainer in business communication at Canadian Universities including McGill, and international top ten business school Schulich at York. His client list of leading business people and politicians currently includes presidents and CEO's of fortune 50 companies and a G8 Prime Minister.

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