Also a must read.
http://books.google.com/books?id=l0ppVtoenLUC&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
Challenge For The Pacific: the Bloody Six-month Battle Of Guadalcanal
By Robert Leckie
Guadalcanal Diary isn’t available for the Kindle, but Challenge For The Pacific is. I’ve just downloaded it. Only, the book’s name has changed. It’s now “Challenge For The Pacific: The Turning Point of the War”. Same author, a 2010 publishing date (Kindle). I’m also sending it to my Nook Color.
I read that when I was a senior in high school. Leckie, the author, joined the Marines the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, and fought at "the Canal." He has written several books about military affairs.