Title: Night Over the Solomons
Author: Louis L'Amour
Date: 1986
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0-553-26602-0
Length: 175 pages
Quote: "Back in my pre-World War II knockabout days, I got to know a lot of men like my heroes Turk Madden, Mike Thorne, and Steve Cowan."
Louis L'Amour was best known for his "westerns." He saw himself, though, as an historical fiction writer, and wrote stories and novels set in several historical periods. The six longish "short" stories that make up this book are set in the Pacific "theatre" in World War II. (Chinese people were likely to be friends, Japanese people to be enemies.) Though fiction, they were at least suggested by real war stories.
For people who like this kind of thing, it's the kind of thing they like. I have a copy; local lurkers may form a line now.
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