Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgments v
4. Foreword xi
5. Preface to the 1995 Edition xvii
6. Author's Note xxii
7. Part One Buckner’s War
8. Chapter One Japan Steams North 3
9. Chapter Two “You Will Be Governed by the Principle of Calculated Risk” 13
10. Chapter Three The Battle of Dutch Harbor: 31
11. Chapter Four The Battle of Dutch Harbor: 41
12. Chapter Five Buckner’s Beehive 57
13. Chapter Six “The Airfield Is for Use Either by Ouselves or by the Enemy, Whichever Gets There First” 79
14. Part Two Eareckson’s War
15. Chapter Seven The Kiska Blitz 99
16. Chapter Eight Mission to Seek and Destroy Enemy in Alaska 117
17. Chapter Nine “When You Could See a Hundred Feet, That Was a Clear Day” 133
18. Chapter Ten The Navy’s Spring Plowing 149
19. Chapter Eleven Forward to Adak 167
20. Chapter Twelve “I had a Sheep-Lined fur Parka— and then i had One to Wear Outdoors” 191
21. Part Three Kinkaid’s War
22. Chapter Thirteen Kinkaid’s Blockade 209
23. Chapter Fourteen The Battle of the Komandorskis 225
24. Chapter Fifteen “The Hunger Was Maddening...” 235
25. Chapter Sixteen Operation Landcrab 253
26. Chapter Seventeen The Battle of Attu 273
27. Chapter Eighteen The Raids on Paramushiro 341
28. Chapter Nineteen Battle of the Pips 357
29. Chapter Twenty The Invasion of Kiska 373
30. Epilogue 397
31. Afterword 1995 403
32. Appendix One Further Discussion of the Paramushiro Raids 411
33. Appendix Two Further Discussion of the Battle of the Pips 417
34. Bibliographical Remarks 421
35. Bibliography 425
36. 1995 Bibliographic Addendum 439
37. Index 447