The National Museum of the Pacific War at 328 West Main will be host a book-signing by World War II historian, James Hornfischer, on Saturday, February 12. Hornfischer will be available starting at 2 p.m. in the George H.W. Bush Gallery to sign copies of his latest book, Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal.

The book tells the story of the bloody, four-month campaign to secure convoy routes between the United States, New Zealand and Australia. The campaign is believed to have been a turning point that allowed the Allies to take the offensive in the Pacific theater and eventually led to the surrender of Japan.

Hornfischer, a graduate of Colgate University and the University of Texas School of Law, is the author of two other books about World War II naval history: Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of her Survivors, which won the United States Maritime Literature Award in 2007, and The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour, which won the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature in 2004. Hornfischer is a member of the Naval Order of the United States and the Navy League, and was appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry as an "Admiral in the Texas Navy." Hornfischer has appeared on the History Channel and Fox News and frequently speaks to veterans' organizations, civic groups and professional naval organizations on the subject of the Pacific theater in World War II. He is the president of Hornfischer Literary management and lives in Austin with his wife and their three children.