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Index
Front cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Prologue
War and Peace at Odds
Ambassador’s Briefcase Purloined
Inches from Death
Underground War
Movie Show in Shanghai
Monster Created
Street Fights and Bombs
War of Nerves
“Inspection” Interrupted
Diplomacy Under Physical Stress
War’s First Battle
Eagle’s Brief Flight
Revolting Visit to Poland
Incredible, Ubiquitous Samaritan
Jockeying for Position
Plans Gone Astray
Dinner Guest
Bold Gamble Supported?
“Intend to Fire Torpedo”
“Never Such a Fleet”
Titanic Connection
Treasure Ships En Route
Landing with Piggyback Rider
Parachutist Draped on Wing
Stricken Pilot’s Pivotal Decision
Pet Spy in England
Penalty Exacted for Coventry
Blues vs. Reds
Patterns on a Dining Room Table
Generals from the Eighties
Memorable Utterances
Saga Piled upon Saga
Early Martyr at Auschwitz
Whose Planes These?
Warnings Repeatedly Ignored
War “Half as Bad as It Sounds”
Countdown
Farewell from Stalin
Ally in the White House
Fleet of Moles
Mount Your Tanks!
Faith, Hope, and Charity
No Action Taken
Tough Farewell for FDR
War, War, Everywhere War
No Place for a Visitor
Date to Mark
Footnote to Pearl
“Too Damned Old”
Bird Named Swoose
Chennault Strikes Back
Disorderly Ran the Two Ships
Going around FDR’s Secrecy
Tale of a Stowaway
MacArthur’s Extended Escape
Japanese-American vs. Japan
Bombed by Oranges
Long Odyssey into War
Blind Leading the Blind
Hands of Steel
Early Tokyo Run
Tokyo’s Psychological Shock
Tale of Two Ships
Seagoing Guards
He Stopped Rommel
Spinster Ship
Getting from Here to There
Rendezvous for Faithful Companion
Hunt for Tall, Limping Man
Escape to Berlin
High Drama at Sea
Women at War
No Comforts on New Guinea
Bully That Never Fought
Romance amid Society’s Ruins
Hitler’s Bathwater Purloined
Intelligence War
War Still Supreme
Tapping the Hot Line
Brave Trigger’s Last Patrol
Conversation with the Lord
Non-Swimmer’s Worst Nightmare
Constant Companion Cuthbert
Liaison Corps
Ship’s Piano Purloined
A “Duckling” Transfixed
Only Harry
Kilroy Really Was
Square Balloon
“Mush” Morton Legend
Plea of the White Rose
Soothed into Agreement
Brothers to the End
Young Man Whittling
Death of Leslie Howard
Shipmates to the End
Stalingrad’s “White Rose”
Allies on Ascendancy
“Hey, We’re on Your Side”
“Smoking Too Much”
Close Call for FDR
Riding Enemy’s Truck
“Sure Am Sorry”
Oops, No Parachute
War Story
Courage Extended
Strife at High Levels
Search for “Big Stoop”
Doubling for Monty
One Man Army
New Hope for “Kitty”
Only Ike Did It All
Two in Single-Seat Fighter
A General and His Dog
Faint Sound in the Distance
Hitchhiker to the Rescue
Marooned in America
Fear and Trembling
Destruction, Destruction Everywhere
Million and One Heroes
Marooned in Modern France
Resistance at Auschwitz
Record Set Escaping
Apology Between Enemies
Wildly Varied Lot
Prepare to Attack Fleet
Agent’s Unexpected Role
Presidential Unit Citation
Escape from Auschwitz
Final Throes
Remarkable Delaying Action
What to Call the Battle?
Ripple Effect
“Miracles Do Happen”
Platoon’s Heroics at the Bulge
Playing Possum
Practice Makes Perfect
Fateful Tea Party
Southpaw’s Cruel Fate
“They’re Still There”
Flag Raised at Iwo
Aboard “Apartment Ship”
Obituary
Freedom March
Sink Sank Ship
Who Are You?
GI’s New Boots
Fifth Army Fortunes
Horror Story
Rescue by Drunk Driver
FDR’s Last Visit
Aliases for FDR
Parachuting into Enemy Territory
Flowers on Their Graves
Brothers/Sisters of the Sea
Waiting to Be Shot
Farther than Any Army
Greatest Invasion Averted
“I Saw the Mushroom Cloud”
Momentous Word Flashed
Escape from New Menace
Humanitarian in Budapest
Last Missing WASP
End Is Seen
Among the Former Enemy
Postscript
Eleanor Roosevelt: Woman for the Ages by Ingrid Smyer
World War II: A Detailed Chronology
About the Authors
Back Cover
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