Chapter 1: A distinguished visitor
Chapter 2: The world in flux
Chapter 3: "Spreading imperial virtue"
Chapter 4: The eight corners of the world
Chapter 5: Unlimited national emergency
Chapter 6: "We cannot speculate with the security of this country"
Chapter 7: General quarters!
Chapter 9: ...and a general
Chapter 10: The Philippines: "A limit to human endurance"
Chapter 11: First Washington Conference
Chapter 12: Yamamoto's great offensive: coral sea and midway
Chapter 13: Australia-New Guinea
Chapter 14: "Sock 'em in the solomons"
Chapter 17: The open slot
Chapter 18: "A goddam mess"
Chapter 19: "Friday the bloody thirteenth"
Chapter 20: A troubled Hirohito.