Into the Valley: Marines at Guadalcanal
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Blood and sweat, but no tears. On the 8th of October, 1942, John Hersey, Time-Life correspondent, went down into the valley with Captain Charles Rigaud of the US Marines and his heavy gun company. A small skirmish took place there. The valley was on Guadalcanal. This book recaptures the feelings of Riguad, his men, and Hersey as they went down into that jungle valley
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It is the second book to be designated by the Council Books in Wartime as a War Book Panel Imperative, an award that is justly deserved because it is universally accepted as one of the first great pieces of war reporting to come from a front line manned by Americans. Here is the terrible fabric of war as it feels and sounds to the men themselves; her are the mud and the blood and the dying; hear are the greatness of American boys in battle, and a flashing vision of what they are fighting for.
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