How long does it take to read Neptune's Inferno?
Neptune's Inferno by James D. Hornfischer takes about 9 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 28 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2011. 516 pages, about 141,900 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
While the Battle of Midway is perhaps more well known, the Battle of Guadalcanal was a far larger, longer, and more brutal struggle which marked the turning point in the Pacific War. It was an all out fight on land, sea, and air which lasted for over 4 months, into which both sides poured all the resources they could summon. This book is about the many major naval battles which to a large extent determined the outcome. At the beginning, the US Navy was still emerging from its peacetime slumber, and it was ravaged by the much more experienced Japanese in some of the worst defeats in US naval history. However, as crews and commanders learned from very painful experience, the tide was turned, and eventually the Japanese were forced to withdraw as they couldn't sustain their enormous losses in ships and sailors. The book vividly describes the hell that both sides went through as human beings lived and died in hailstorms of hot steel.
Subjects: United States. Navy, Interviews, United States, American Personal narratives, American Naval operations, Veterans
