A biography of the admiral whose command of U.S. naval forces in the Pacific during World War II, although successful, became controversial.

INCLUDES INDEX.

Pearl Harbor and Wake -- Origins of a warrior -- Counterattack -- Target : Tokyo -- Battles missed -- Junior officer -- Destroyerman -- Aviator -- Carrier commander -- Commander, South Pacific -- The crisis -- Guadalcanal recaptured -- Caesar and the Bull -- Central Solomons -- South Pacific -- Bypassing Rabaul -- The big blue fleet -- Leyte Gulf -- The Philippines -- Okinawa -- Victory -- Last years.