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Richard Tregaskis (1916–1973)

Autor/a de Guadalcanal Diary

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Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944 (1995) — Col·laborador — 437 exemplars
Combat: The War with Japan (1962) — Introducció — 46 exemplars
100 Best True Stories of World War II (1945) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
Guadalcanal Diary [1943 film] (1943) — Original book — 18 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Tregaskis, Richard William
Data de naixement
1916-11-28
Data de defunció
1973-08-15
Lloc d'enterrament
Cremated, ashes scattered off of Waikiki Beach, Hawaii
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
Lloc de defunció
Hawaii, USA (drowned after heart attack)
Llocs de residència
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (death)
Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA (birth)
Educació
Harvard University (BA|1938)
Professions
journalist
war correspondent
screenwriter
Relacions
Tregaskis, Moana (second wife)
Organitzacions
International News Service
Boston American Record
Premis i honors
George Polk Award (1964)
Biografia breu
Richard Tregaskis, born in New Jersey in 1916, was a war correspondent and author. Prevented by bad eyesight from enlisting in the armed forces during World War II, he covered both the Pacific and European theaters as a correspondent and was badly wounded in Italy. He chronicled his wartime experiences in many books, including "Guadalcanal Diary" (1943) and "Invasion Diary" (1944). The bulk of his career was spent reporting on events in Asia and Oceania. Tregaskis covered nine wars, including the Chinese Civil War, Korean, and Vietnam War. He also wrote poetry, novels, biographies, magazine articles, and screenplays for motion pictures and television. Tregaskis drowned near Honolulu in 1973.

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Guadalcanal Diary opens on July 26, 1942 as war correspondent Richard Tregaskis is travelling on an American destroyer toward an island in the Pacific where the Marines are going to be landed and meet the enemy in the first land battle of World War II. The island turns out to be Guadacanal and Tregaskis is there every step of the way as the Americans battle the Japanese throughout the Solomon Islands.

The book was published in 1943 and gave Americans at home a bird’s-eye view of the battle in the Pacific as he lived alongside the soldiers and experienced all that they did. Morale was high even though they were dealing with night raids, snipers and bombing attacks. Even dealing with disease, lack of food and sleep, he was able to let America know that their “boys’ were performing well.

Guadalcanal Diary is frontline reporting at it’s best. Written in diary form, there is very little about “me” or “I”. It’s all about the soldiers. The story is engrossing and historically accurate, written in simple prose that highlights the slang of the day and grounds the book in reality. This is an honest and compelling account of what the Marines were facing as they fought and liberated this small corner of the Pacific.
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DeltaQueen50 | Hi ha 9 ressenyes més | Nov 5, 2023 |
a truly great book--will give you nightmares
 
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spence185 | Sep 27, 2023 |
Good account of JFK's war experience.
 
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kslade | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Dec 8, 2022 |
Dick Tregaskis was a legendary American war correspondent who covered the Second World War, Korea and Vietnam. When he was just 26 years old, he accompanied Marines who landed on the island of Guadalcanal with the goal of taking it back from the Japanese. This book — his best-known work — tells the story of the first three months of that battle, which lasted many more months, and which ended in an American victory.

The historical significance of Guadalcanal consisted of the fact that it was the first land battle between American and Axis troops during the Second World War (the U.S. landing in North Africa came a few months later).

But Tregaskis was not interested in the broad strategy. This is history told at ground level, stories of men (always identified by their home town – e.g., Lieut. Col. William S. Fellers of Atlanta, Ga.) engaged in personal combat. Encounters with Japanese snipers, enemy craft bombarding the shore, Zero fighters coming in to bomb and strafe, are still frightening to read now, eight decades later.

Tregaskis does find some men who panic, some who flee, some who hide — but the vast majority display incredible heroism under fire. However, his description of the enemy is unflattering in the extreme and will make for uncomfortable reading today.
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ericlee | Hi ha 9 ressenyes més | Feb 27, 2022 |

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Obres
18
També de
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Membres
1,418
Popularitat
#18,141
Valoració
½ 3.7
Ressenyes
20
ISBN
49
Llengües
1

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