"The author of the national best-seller The Admirals chronicles General Douglas MacArthur's amazing rise during World War II,"--Amazon.com.

Prologue: Monday, December 8, 1941 -- Part one: Escape, 1941-1942 -- 1. First charge, first war -- 2. West Point to the Philippines -- 3. Manila before the storm -- 4. Lost hours -- 5. Blame and Bataan -- 6. Dugout Doug -- 7. Ordered out -- Part two: Exile, 1942 -- 8. Waltzing Matilda -- 9. CINCSWPA -- 10. Saving Australia -- 11. Kokoda Trail -- 12. "Take Buna, Bob..." -- Part three: Redemption, 1943 -- 13. Finishing Buna, looking ahead -- 14. "Skipping" the Bismarck Sea -- 15. Meeting Halsey -- 16. Bypassing Rabaul -- 17. One general to another -- Part four: Return, 1944 -- 18. Gambling in the Admiralties -- 19. Hollandia-- greatest triumph? -- 20. Presidential ambitions, presidential summons -- 21. Toward the Philippines -- 22. Sixty minutes from defeat -- Part five: Resolution, 1945 -- 23. Return to Manila -- 24. Hail the conquering hero -- 25. "These proceedings are closed" -- Epilogue: A study in superlatives.