The Guadalcanal campaign and the slow conquest of islands in the Pacific by U.S. forces during the last months of World War II. Part of the Time-Life series on World War II.

INCLUDES INDEX.

Operation shoestring --Treadmill in Papua -- Up the Solomons Ladder -- Lessons in atoll warfare -- MacArthur's road back -- Book, sand and coral -- Picture essays: Calm before the storm ; -- The allies' eyes and ears ; -- A painful path to victory ; -- Kenney's Flying Devils ; -- The Tarawa killing ground ; -- The Navy's floating bases ; -- The agony of Peleliu ; -- The "Can do" Seabees.