Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 Book

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Introduction

Chapter One Dilemmas and Decisions
1. War in the East
2. Summit on Oahu

Chapter Two Japan: Defying Gravity
1. Yamato Spirit
2. Warriors

Chapter Three The British in Burma
1. Imphal and Kohima
2. “The Forgotten Army”

Chapter Four Titans at Sea
1. Men and Ships
2. Flyboys

Chapter Five America’s Return to the Philippines
1. Peleliu
2. Leyte: The Landing

Chapter Six
“Flowers of Death”: Leyte Gulf
1. Shogo
2. The Ordeal of Taffy 3
3. Kamikaze

Chapter Seven Ashore: Battle for the Mountains

Chapter Eight China: Dragon by the Tail
1. The Generalissimo
2. Barefoot Soldiers
3. The Fall of Stilwell

Chapter Nine MacArthur on Luzon
1. “He Is Insane on This Subject!”: Manila
2. Yamashita’s Defiance

Chapter Ten Bloody Miniature: Iwo Jima

Chapter Eleven Blockade: War Underwater

Chapter Twelve Burning a Nation: LeMay
1. Superfortresses
2. Fire-Raising

Chapter Thirteen The Road past Mandalay

Chapter Fourteen Australians: “Bludging” and “Mopping Up”

Chapter Fifteen Captivity and Slavery
1. Inhuman Rites
2. Hell Ships

Chapter Sixteen Okinawa
1. Love Day
2. At Sea

Chapter Seventeen Mao’s War
1. Yan’an
2. With the Soviets

Chapter Eighteen Eclipse of Empires

Chapter Nineteen The Bombs
1. Fantasy in Tokyo
2. Reality at Hiroshima

Chapter Twenty Manchuria: The Bear’s Claws

Chapter Twenty-one The Last Act
1. “God’s Gifts”
2. Despair and Deliverance

Chapter Twenty-two Legacies

A Brief Chronology of the Japanese War
Acknowledgements
Notes and Sources
Index