Table of Contents
Prologue: Pearl Harbor 1
Part 1
1 "The Only Way I Could Survive" 15
Hollywood, March 1938-April 1939
2 "The Dictates of My Heart and Blood" 31
Hollywood and Washington, April 1939-May 1940
3 "You Must Not Realize that There Is a War Going On" 58
Hollywood, June-September 1940
4 "What's the Good of a Message?" 69
Hollywood, Early 1941
5 "The Most Dangerous Fifth Column in Our Country" 83
Hollywood and Washington, July-December 1941
Part 2
6 "Do I Have to Wait for Orders?" 101
Hollywood, Washington, and Hawaii, December 1941-April 1942
7 "I've Only Got One German" 117
Hollywood, December 1941-April 1942
8 "It's Going to Be a Problem and a Battle" 130
Washington, March-June 1942
9 "All I Know Is That I'm Not Courageous" 145
Midway and Washington, June-August 1942
10 "Can You Use Me?" 172
Washington and Hollywood, August-September 1942
11 "A Good Partner to Have in Times of Trouble" 172
England, North Africa, and Hollywood, September 1942-January 1943
12 "You Might as Well Run into It as Away from It" 186
The Aleutian Islands, Hollywood, Washington, and North Africa, September 1942-May 1943
13 "Just Enough to Make It Seem Less Than Real" 199
England, Hollywood, and Washington, January-May 1943
14 "Coming Along with Us Just for Pictures?" 213
Washington, England, and New York, March-July 1943
Part 3
15 "How to Live in the Army" 231
North Africa, Hollywood, Florida, and Washington, Summer 1943
16 "I'm the Wrong Man for That Stuff" 244
Washington Hollywood, And England, June-December 1943
17 "I Have to Do a Good Job" 257
England and Italy, October 1943-January 1944
18 "We Really Don't Know What Goes On Beneath the Surface" 271
Washington, the China-Burma-India Theater, Italy, and New York September 1943-March 1944
19 "If You Believe This, We Thank You" 286
Hollywood and England, March-May 1944
20 "A Sporadic Raid of Sorts on the Continent" 299
Hollywood, Washington, and New York, March-May 1944
21 "If You See It, Shoot It" 310
France, June-July 1944
22 "If Hitler Can Hold Out, So Can I" 324
Hollywood and Washington, July-December 1944
23 "Time and Us Marches On" 338
France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and England, July 1944-January 1945
24 "Who You Working For-Yourself?" 352
Hollywood, Florida, Italy, and New York, February-May 1945
25 "Where I Learned About Life" 366
Germany, March-August 1945
26 "What's This Picture For?" 378
Washington and Hollywood, Summer 1945
27 "An Angry Past Commingled with the Future in a Storm" 391
Hollywood, New York and Germany, 1945
28 "A Straight Face and a Painfully Maturing Mind" 405
Hollywood, New York, and Washington, December 1945-March 1946
29 "Closer to What Is Going On in the World" 419
Hollywood, May 1946-February 1947
Epilogue 439
Note on Sources and Acknowledgments 445
Notes 449
Bibliography 489
Credits 495
Index 497