Guadalcanal Twice Told

J. Murray Johns and Bill Compton

1978 Vantage Press 76 page illustrated hardcover with jacket

Stated first edition – signed and inscribed by author

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An amazing to diary of a Japanese soldier and memoirs of the American sailor who found him alive but dying, on Guadalcanal

Contents

Authors note

Introduction

The American

American-July December 1942

The Japanese soldiers diary

In December of 1942, in the steaming jungles of Guadalcanal, in the thick of one of the bloodiest battles of WWII, an American sailor came upon a clearing in which he found 12 or so Japanese soldiers.  They were dead, one-that one was still alive…

This diary has been called one of the most complete Japanese diaries found during war.

This important historical document has been professionally translated and is presented here in conjunction with J. Murray John’s own account of his Guadalcanal experience…