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Index
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
List of Maps
Prologue: Monday, December 8, 1941
Part One: Escape—1941–1942
1. First Charge, First War
2. West Point to the Philippines
3. Manila Before the Storm
4. Lost Hours
5. Blame and Bataan
6. Dugout Doug
7. Ordered Out
Part Two: Exile—1942
8. Waltzing Matilda
9. CINCSWPA
10. Saving Australia
11. Kokoda Trail
12. “Take Buna, Bob…”
Part Three: Redemption—1943
13. Finishing Buna, Looking Ahead
14. “Skipping” the Bismarck Sea
15. Meeting Halsey
16. Bypassing Rabaul
17. One General to Another
Part Four: Return—1944
18. Gambling in the Admiralties
19. Hollandia—Greatest Triumph?
20. Presidential Ambitions, Presidential Summons
21. Toward the Philippines
22. Sixty Minutes from Defeat
Part Five: Resolution—1945
23. Return to Manila
24. Hail the Conquering Hero
25. “These Proceedings Are Closed”
Epilogue: A Study in Superlatives
Photos
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Walter R. Borneman
Appendixes
A. Chiefs of Staff, US Army, 1906–1948
B. World War II Global Strategy Conferences
C. Code Names for Major Pacific Operations
Notes
Bibliography
Newsletters
Table of Contents
Copyright
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