Contents

Cover

Title Page

Maps

Dedication

Cast of Characters

Prologue: The Day

Part I: The Making of Warriors

Chapter 1: Johnnie Bill and the Moon

Chapter 2: Isoroku, Aeroplanes, and a Geisha Girl

Chapter 3: The Flyboy from Enid

Chapter 4: No Ordinary Strategy

Chapter 5: A Taste of War

Chapter 6: When the Rose Petals Fell

Part II: The South Pacific

Chapter 7: Wedding Bells and Pacific Blues

Chapter 8: Unfinished Business

Chapter 9: Midway: Yamamoto’s Lament

Chapter 10: Mitchell on the Move

Part III: Guadalcanal

Chapter 11: The First Kill

Chapter 12: Nights to Remember

Chapter 13: Moon over Guadalcanal

Part IV: Vengeance

Chapter 14: Five Days and Counting

Chapter 15: One Day More

Chapter 16: Dead Reckoning

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography

Notes

Index

About the Author

Also by Dick Lehr

Copyright

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