Odin & Aesop
Interested in military history? Please join Join Bill Redman and Tony Faust two retired Marines as they review military history books and provide a unique look at how the book’s contents relate to current trends in military operations. Each episode provides a detailed book discussion along with some recommendations for related reading on the topic.”
Odin & Aesop
Neptune's Inferno
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Bill Redman & Tony Faust
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Season 1
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Episode 12
The Battle of Guadalcanal took place from August 1942 until February 1943. Because Guadalcanal is an island, both the Japanese and the Americans relied on the sea to supply their forces and bring in reinforcements. James D. Hornfischer’s “Neptune’s Inferno” tells the story of the fight to control the seas around Guadalcanal. These sea battles cost roughly three times as many American lives as the fighting on the island and gave the American surface fleet a hard lesson in modern fleet-on-fleet action.