Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Prologue 3
Part 1 1942
Chapter 1 "This Is War, Not a Sunday School Picnic" 9
Chapter 2 "Every Man for Himself" 30
Chapter 3 First Landings in New Guinea 43
Chapter 4 A General in Search of an Army 54
Chapter 5 To Port Moresby by Sea 84
Chapter 6 Second Landings in New Guinea 111
Chapter 7 Death Along the Kokoda Track 127
Chapter 8 First Defeat at Milne Bay 153
Chapter 9 "Take Buna, or Not Come Back Alive" 167
Part 2 1943
Chapter 10 Sailing the Bismarck Sea 185
Chapter 11 Assault on Salamaua 206
Chapter 12 Pincers Around Lae 227
Chapter 13 War on the Huon Peninsula 243
Chapter 14 Invasion Across the Straits 261
Part 3 1944
Chapter 15 The General and the Admiralties 281
Chapter 16 Reckless and Persecution 295
Chapter 17 Next Stop: Wakde 311
Chapter 18 Bloody Biak 328
Chapter 19 The General, the President, and the Admiral 344
Chapter 20 Breakout from Wewak 353
Chapter 21 Island-Hopping to Victory 361
Epilogue 381
Acknowledgments 385
Bibliography 387
Source Notes 401
Index 425