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In Nightmare Island two Marines from a small South Carolina town land on Guadalcanal's Red Beach on August 7, 1942. They fight with Edson's Raiders on Bloody Ridge when it is attacked by an overwhelming Japanese force and go on the longest patrol behind enemy lines of the war with Carlson's Raiders. This is the story of how two men, one young enough to be the other's son, struggle to stay alive together in this vicious new war in the Pacific.
When one of them carves the first two notches on the grips of the 45 automatic given to him by his nine year old son to help him fight the Japanese, he is close to losing his life and very nearly his mind.
How does war without mercy change them? Will they both survive?
All but lost to history, Guadalcanal was the first combined land, sea and air victory of the war. Vicious, brutal and personal, it stopped the Japanese advance across the Pacific, changed the momentum of the war and gave hope to the people at home. Code named "Watchtower" it was Known as "Operation Shoestring" to those who were there. It lasted six brutal months during which the First Marine Division, sick, malnourished, shell shocked and battle fatigued, hung on by a thread through attack after attack from superior Japanese forces.
This is their story through the eyes of two fictional Marines who, with the rest of them, fought every day to stay alive.
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