Alone on Guadalcanal
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1st Marine Division
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Allied counteroffensive
Allied intelligence operations
Author_Martin Clemens
behind enemy lines
British district officer WWII
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covert missions
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guerrilla warfare Pacific
island warfare tactics
Japanese occupation resistance
jungle survival
long-range patrols
Marine Corps collaboration
Martin Clemens memoir
Melanesian commandos
military-civilian cooperation
Pacific theater espionage
Solomon Islands campaign
unconventional warfare history
war journal narrative
WWII eyewitness account
Product details
- ISBN 9781591141242
- Dimensions: 156 x 223mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2013
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive. Scottish-born and Cambridge-educated, Martin Clemens managed to survive months behind Japanese lines in one of the most unfriendly climates and terrains in the world. After countless partisan and spy missions, in 1942 he emerged from the jungle and integrated his Melanesian commando force into the heart of the 1st Marine Division’s operations, earning the unfettered admiration of such legendary Marine officers as Vandegrift, Thomas, Twining, Edson, and Pate.
The book is based on a journal Clemens kept during the war and might well be the last critical source of analysis of the Solomon’s campaign. His eyewitness accounts of harrowing long-distance patrols and life on the run from shadowy Japanese intelligence operatives and treacherous islanders are unmatched in the literature of the Pacific War. First published in 1998, the story is essential and enjoyable reading.
Martin Clemens served as a British colonial administrator in the Pacific, Palestine, and Cyprus, specializing in political administration and antiterrorism. He lives in Australia.
Martin Clemens served as a British colonial administrator in the Pacific, Palestine, and Cyprus, specializing in political administration and antiterrorism.
