Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Maps xiii
Prologue: Love Day 1
1 "Where's Douglas?" 13
2 Operation Iceberg 18
3 "Everybody go home!" 28
4 The Divine Wind 37
5 "More concerned with furlough than fighting" 45
6 "I'm going simply because I've got to-and I hate it" 52
7 "I was crying as I did it and she was crying too" 61
8|"Tomorrow is our big day" 69
9 "It was quite a show" 78
10 "There's always some poor bastard who doesn't get word" 84
11 "The smell of burnt flesh hung about for days" 91
12 "War is indeed hell" 98
13 "I could see him floating by, face upward" 104
14 "Gone? She's gone?" 111
15 "They just knocked the heck out of us" 119
16 "I want to marry Shigeko" 130
17 "Harry, the president is dead" 139
18 "His eyes were rolling in panic" 145
19 "Three bullets had ripped into his temple" 154
20 "Progress not quite satisfactory" 162
21 "All Kaitens prepare for launch!" 169
22 "The most terrible weapon" 176
23 "Corpsman!" 181
24 Hacksaw Ridge 191
25 "We will fight to the last man" 199
26 "Doc, this one is worth saving" 208
27 "The happy dream is over" 217
28 Sugar Loaf Hill 224
29 "Hell's own cesspool" 237
30 "I still hear those cries today" 249
31 "The entire enemy line appears to be crumbling" 258
32 "It is terrifying to think about" 266
33 "There is NO tactical thinking or push" 270
34 "I lost damn near all of them" 276
35 "You re just going to have to hang on" 284
36 "We were so gullible, so innocent" 291
37 "We are down to the final kill" 298
38 "I haven't come up to the front to hide" 306
39 "Every man will … fight to the end" 312
40 "Suppose it doesn't go off?" 318
41 "What a splendid last moment!" 324
42 "All he talked about was you" 334
43 "The most terrible thing ever discovered" 342
44 "My God, what have we done?" 349
45 "We were going to live!" 358
Epilogue: "Those dark corners are still there" 365
Acknowledgments 373
Notes 375
Bibliography 397
Index 403