What's the best book (either Lincoln or non) you read in 2012

[Thomas Thorne]

My pick is Neptune's Inferno:The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer. The book concentrates on the great surface combats of the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942,the only period in WW2 in which the American and Japanese Navies fought as equals.

Hornfischer writes with verve and power. My generation and our successors could not have endured what our sailors went through in this campaign and triumphed.
Tom