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...Theodore Ropp The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942-February 1943 . By Morison Samuel Eliot . History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume V . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1950 . Pp. xxii , 389 . $6.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University...

... more so than any other President of our history. Coming from a book that is coldly analytical and topical rather than narrative and per­ sonal, this is reasoned praise indeed. Richard L. Watson, Jr. The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942-February 1943. By Samuel Eliot Morison. History of United...

..., with the preparation for and the successful landing on Guadalcanal. But this does not mean that Part II comes as an anticlimax. Pro­ fessor Morison s summary of American and Japanse submarine doctrine, equipment, and tactics sets the stage for all the later history of the subma­ rine war in the Pacific. Our submarine...

.... This was surely such a battle; Guadalcanal is already part of the national legend. Theodore Ropp. John C. Calhoun: American Portrait. By Margaret L. Coit. Boston; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. Pp. ix, 593. $5.00. In her John C. Calhoun, Margaret Coit has attempted to write a book which would be above all...

... factor; and occasionally points the finger of criticism. He draws conclusions, some of which in the light of the Korean episode (1950) would seem to prove him a prophet, but others, such as his dog­ matic criticism of Navy planning at Guadalcanal, are more glib than authoritative. The volume...

... a real comprehension of the personal factor; and occasionally points the finger of criticism. He draws conclusions, some of which in the light of the Korean episode (1950) would seem to prove him a prophet, but others, such as his dog­ matic criticism of Navy planning at Guadalcanal, are more glib than...

.... Some dates are wrong. Half-accuracies are frequent. Terms are misused. For about half the volume, for example, the term Joint Chiefs of Staff is used when Combined Chiefs is meant. Battles are described in weirdly imaginative detail. In the chapter on Guadalcanal it is stated that On October 24...

... as the British-American forces launched their in­ vasion of North Africa, the Russians held on at Stalingrad, and the American forces battled for control of Guadalcanal. Entitled One Hundred Years of Reconstruction of the South, it boiled down to one long, sullen whimper elaborating the allegation...

... complete polit­ ical and economic egalitarianism. Mr. Brailsford s politics, which do intrude, were of the farthest Left. But much may be forgiven a man who could write such beautiful prose. [Stephen b. Baxter In Richard F. Newcomb s Savo: The Incredible Naval Debacle off Guadalcanal (New York: Holt...

.... Roseman, How We Build the Road’: The Politics of Memory in Rural Galicia American Ethnologist  Rubie S. Watson, Memory, History, and Opposition: Under State So- cialism (Santa Fe, NM, Geoffrey M. White, ‘‘Remembering Guadalcanal: National Identity and Transnational Memory...