Fighter Squadron at Guadalcanal

Rating:
Summary: Good, but not fantastic!
Review: Writer Max Brand (who died in 1944 in Italy, as a war correspondent)did a good job interviewing the members of VMF 212, in 1943,after their tour of duty in Guadalcanal, in 1942. The book is good, but not so action-orientated like his tittle leads you to think. So , the reader must spend time to see how were the difficulties to build the fighter strips in Pacific, etc, which, as the book only now was published, is quite old history for WW II students.

Rating:
Summary: bad
Review: Written soon after VMF 212 came back after his tour of duty in the Pacific, this book lacks detail and, altough the writer interviewed surviving pilots personally, it clearly lacks information concerning the enemy ( the Japs ), the general war scenario, etc. It's clearly just another "patriotic" book written during WW II to feed the American war machine. Very weak.