"BAttle of Savo Island Book Recomendations" Topic

Looking for recomendations for in depth books (like Shatterd Sword is for Midway) on the Battle of Savo Island.

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

"Neptune's Inferno" by Hornfischer. Maybe the best book on the naval part of the Guadalcanal campaign.

'The Shame of Savo' – Bruce Loxton.

Also want to recommend Neptune's Inferno. It's a very solid book on the naval portion of the Guadalcanal campaign.

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

S.E. Morison; History of United States Naval Operations in World War II; Volume V ("The Struggle for Guadalcanal").

IMHO the Loxton book, while interesting, is not entirely objective. Of course, the same could be said of Morison, who was apparently a pal of Admiral Turner, and inserted Turner's interpretations (and excuses) regarding the battle in his books.

The Lundstrom book, "Black Shoe Carrier Admiral" also discusses Savo, mostly in a chapter entitled "The Savo Disaster". Lundstrom is more objective than either of the 2 authors mentioned above, and the book is also much more recent, published in 2006.

MH