Preface : prelude to the war in the Pacific (1930-1941)
1. Who fired first? (7-8 December 1941)
2. fall of the Philippines (January 1942)
3. hell worse than war : the Bataan death march (April 1942)
4. Revenge for Pearl Harbor : the Doolittle raid (April 1942)
5. awakened giant : the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942)
6. Turning point : the Battle of Midway (June 1942)
7. Flying Tigers (1937-1945)
8. forgotten front : China-Burma-India theater (1937-1945)
9. Death by inches : Guadalcanal (August 1942-February 1943)
10. Black Sheep Squadron (August 1943-January 1944)
11. Bloody Tarawa (November 1943)
12. Assault on the Marianas (June-August 1944)
13. Forgotten Peleliu (September 1944)
14. "I have returned" : the Battle of Leyte (October 1944)
15. daring rescue of the ghosts of Bataan (January 1945)
16. Iwo Jima : the bloodiest battle of World War II (February-March 1945)
17. Okinawa : the last battle (April 1945)
18. MacArthur and war's end (July-August 1945)
Epilogue : after the war.
