Guadalcanal Diary is a non-fiction diary of Richard Tregaskis's experience on Guadalcanal as a news correspondent. He was a volunteer, and knew what he was getting into, but still was up to the challenge of war. Even though he was not fighting, he was living alongside the soldiers of his group and dodging gunfire along the way/5. "Guadalcanal Diary" is a classic of war reportage. In the first American offensive of World War II, Tregaskis went ashore with the Marines at Guadalcanal on August 7, and stayed with them for the next six weeks while they fought for survival against the Japanese.5/5(5). While writing the manuscript for Guadalcanal Diary, Richard Tregaskis experienced profound and acute emotions as he recounted the stories of the men he had lived with on the island, and was grateful that he was still alive. Tregaskis himself became a casualty of World War II later in , when in Sicily a piece of German shrapnel went literally through his www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.
This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles--crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all, and to military history in general. Unlike some of those on Guadalcanal in the fall of , Richard Tregaskis volunteered to be there. An on-location news correspondent (at the time, one of only two. Richard William Tregaskis (Novem - Aug) was an American journalist and author whose best-known work is Guadalcanal Diary (), an account of just the first several weeks (in August - September ) of the U.S. Marine Corps invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Richard Tregaskis. Richard William Tregaskis (Novem - Aug) was an American journalist and author whose best-known work is Guadalcanal Diary (), an account of just the first several weeks (in August - September ) of the U.S. Marine Corps invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II.
Richard William Tregaskis (Novem - Aug) was an American journalist and author whose best-known work is Guadalcanal Diary (), an account of just the first several weeks (in August - September ) of the U.S. Marine Corps invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II. This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles—crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all, and to military history in general. Unlike some of those on Guadalcanal in the fall of , Richard Tregaskis volunteered to be there. Richard William Tregaskis (Novem – Aug) was an American journalist and author whose best-known work is Guadalcanal Diary (), an account of just the first several weeks (in August - September ) of the U.S. Marine Corps invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II.
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