"BAttle of Savo Island Book Recomendations" Topic
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| PVT641 | 15 Apr 2025 4:58 p.m. PST |
Looking for recomendations for in depth books (like Shatterd Sword is for Midway) on the Battle of Savo Island. |
| wpilon | 15 Apr 2025 7:33 p.m. PST |
I'm not aware of any monographs on Savo Island since the battle was, what 30 minutes? Neptune's Inferno by Hornfischer covers Savo pretty well in a fair amount of detail as does Rich Franks' Guadalcanal |
| dmclellan | 15 Apr 2025 7:34 p.m. PST |
"Neptune's Inferno" by Hornfischer. Maybe the best book on the naval part of the Guadalcanal campaign. |
Joes Shop  | 15 Apr 2025 8:58 p.m. PST |
'The Shame of Savo' – Bruce Loxton. |
| Lascaris | 16 Apr 2025 8:44 a.m. PST |
Also want to recommend Neptune's Inferno. It's a very solid book on the naval portion of the Guadalcanal campaign. |
 Yellow Admiral | 16 Apr 2025 3:28 p.m. PST |
Another plug for Neptune's Inferno. To do the two-part Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (November 13 & 15, 1942), I ended up using Neptune's Inferno almost exclusively. I ran it as a series of 5 games, 3 air and 2 naval. The information on the air battles was a bit thin, but good enough to make scenarios; the information on the naval contests was more than enough for generating historical scenarios and plausible "what ifs". Excellent book. - Ix |
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