An account of America's participation in WW II. The significant events and personalities of the campaign.

Book Tone: The road to war -- To the edge of the abyss -- In the valley of indecision -- The undeclared war -- To the day of infamy -- Book Two: The turning tide -- Pacific defeat and global strategy -- The heroism and economics of war -- Crisis and turning point in the Pacific -- A dangerous quarrel among friends -- The emergence of Eisenhower -- The end of the beginning -- Book Three: Flood tide of victory -- Atomistic, organismic -- Preludes to the final assaults -- Overlord triumphant -- The edge of triumph -- To the end in Germany -- To the end in Japan.