To anyone unfamiliar with the Richard Tregaskis book, the picture version may or may not be a faithful adaptation [by Jerry Cady] of the original. But it is without question a painstaking, dignified ...

In the summer of 1942, during the first seven weeks of fierce fighting between U.S. Marines and the Japanese on Guadalcanal, an island in the Solomons, the Americans were watched over by a young ...

Jeff Walls, of ‘80s-era Atlanta college rockers Guadalcanal Diary, has died. The co-founder, guitarist and songwriter for the band – as well as garage rockers The Woggles, where he was known as Flesh ...

Thirty-two years after his first solo LP, the singer-songwriter returns with ‘Tense Music Plays.’ ‘I was just trying to make a record that I’d want to listen to myself,’ he says. Murray Attaway plays ...

Jeff Walls died yesterday after battling a rare pulmonary disease. He was a mainstay in the Atlanta and Athens music scenes of the ’80s, ’90s and beyond, first as guitarist of Guadalcanal Diary and ...

The diary of a Marine who recorded his first eight months of World War II in the Pacific before fighting in some of its bloodiest battles is back with his family after it surfaced 81 years later.

600,000 square miles. Nowhere to hide.

U.S. Marine Joseph A. Bucci fought valiantly on Guadalcanal in World War II and then furthered the war effort as a public speaker back home in Amsterdam. Bucci was the son of Charles and Mary Bucci ...

Based on the best-selling book by Richard Tregaskis, this 1943 war epic tells the real story of U.S. forces advancing on Guadalcanal in World War II. Lewis Seiler directed. The Reader is free.