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Preface
The Rise of Japan

Introduction

US errs
Japan strikes
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Guam
Wake Island
British battleships sunk

PART I
COLLISION COURSE

Chapter 1
The View from the East

Japan expands
German alliance
Japanese militarism
Hirohito
the Navy
Manchuria
the Army revolts
"China Incident"
clashes with Russia
autarky and reform
US reacts
Japan takes the southern option
Yamamoto
US overreacts
the junta goes to war

Chapter 2
The View from the West

Origins of World War II
US neutrality
Washington Conference
US isolationism
Roosevelt
US lntelligence
"Purple"
hunt for scapegoats
"Magic" and "Ultra"
who knew?
the Maryknoll mission
last talks
US war warning
war

PART II
JAPAN RAMPANT

Chapter 3
Japan Attacks

Churchill on the rack
British trounced in Malaya
Singapore falls
US Navy stretched
uncommon front from Burma to Australia
Japan's strategy
the "Zero" fighter
ABDA command
Dutch East Indies
Indian Ocean
Bataan and the "Death March"

Chapter 4
The Giant Awakes

US Admirals Kimmel
King
Nimitz
Halsey
US Navy hits back
Doolittle bombs Tokyo
US submarines
and dud torpedoes
Japan goes too far
General MacArthur, USA

Chapter 5
The Turn of the Tide

Junta dazed by its own success
what next?
Battle of the Coral Sea
Japan halted
Rochefort's intelligence
Battle of Midway
Admiral Spruance
Japan thrashed
US Aleutians seized

Chapter 6
Papua and Guadalcanal

US goes for Rabaul
gallant little Australia
General Sir Thomas Blamey
MacArthur takes over
Papua campaign
target southern Solomons
Marines land
Japanese counter
US disaster at Savo Island
US raid on Makin
"Tokyo Express"
Henderson Field
carriers clash
Japan reinforces

Chapter 7
At Sea in the Solomons

US reinforces
submarine I19
"Bloody Ridge"
battles in the Slot
Halsey takes over
Sergeant Basilone, USMC
US carriers hit
US admirals and cruisers lost
"L" for language
"Tenacious Tanaka"
know throe enemy
Japan withdraws from Guadalcanal and Papua
US torpedo debacle

PART III
AMERICA RESURGENT

Chapter 8
Intelligence Applied

Casablanca
Operation Cartwheel
crisis in Japan
Bismarck Sea battle
blood in the water
Yamamoto's last flight
code-breaking chaos
Japanese intelligence
a German view
Japan's substandard subs

Chapter 9
Birth of the Leapfrog

Aleutians regained
death of a pilot
Lae and Salamaua, New Guinea
up the Solomons ladder
bypass and leapfrog-Bougainville
New Britain
Japan trims
soldiers' gripes
conferences

Chapter 10
Hitting the Beaches

The Gilberts
shock of Tarawa
divided US command
the Marshalls invaded
Truk battered
Rabaul bypassed
sitting out the war
MacArthur leapfrogs
western New Guinea
Morotai

Chapter 11
The Marianas and the Great Turkey Shoot

US prepares
the B-29 bomber
Saipan
Philippine Sea battle
"Turkey Shoot"
Spruance blamed for winning
US Marines versus US Army
Nagumo's last stand
human lemmings
Tinian
Guam recovered
Tojo à gogo
US submarine heyday
wolfpacks and convoys
Japanese interservice rivalry
MacArthur shall return

Chapter 12
THE Philippines and Leyte Gulf

British return
Mindanao bypassed
"hitting 'em where they ain't"
more Morotai
Palau
Formosa
Leyte invaded
Mac back
kamikaze
Battle of Leyte Gulf
"The world wonders"
struggles ashore
Halsey's typhoon
Luzon

Chapter 13
"...Not Necessarily to Japan's Advantage..."

Bombing Japan
junta blames people
subs strangle Japan
Iwo Jima
flag up (twice)
Okinawa
supership Yamato sunk
US mighty, slow
Prime Minister Suzuki
death of FDR
Truman-the Bomb
USS Indianapolis
Potsdam Declaration
Hiroshima
enter the USSR
Nagasaki
surrender
the final score
MacArthur' s last word

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