Maps
xv
Tables
xvii
Prologue: Eighty-two Ships xix
PART I SEA OF TROUBLES
1 Trip Wire
3(13)
2 A Great Gray Fleet
16(11)
3 The First D-Day
27(17)
4 Nothing Worthy of Your Majesty's Attention
44(6)
5 Fly the Carriers
50(6)
6 A Captain in the Fog
56(6)
7 The Martyring of Task Group 62.6
62(18)
8 Burning in the Rain
80(15)
PART II FIGHTING FLEET RISING
9 A New Kind of Fight
95(14)
10 The Tokyo Express
109(5)
11 A Function at the Junction
114(9)
12 What They Were Built For
123(12)
13 The Warriors
135(10)
14 The Devil May Care
145(5)
15 The Visit
150(7)
16 Night of a New Moon
157(12)
17 Pulling the Trigger
169(10)
18 "Pour It to 'Em"
179(12)
PART III STORM TIDE
19 All Hell's Eve
191(9)
20 The Weight of a War
200(8)
21 Enter Fighting
208(8)
22 "Strike---Repeat, Strike"
216(7)
23 Santa Cruz
223(14)
24 Secret History
237(6)
25 Turner's Choice
243(10)
26 Suicide
253(10)
27 Black Friday
263(10)
28 Into the Light
273(9)
29 The Killing Salvo
282(8)
30 Death in the Machine Age
290(9)
31 Point Blank
299(12)
32 Among the Shadows
311(6)
33 Atlanta Burning
317(9)
34 Cruiser in the Sky
326(9)
35 Regardless of Losses
335(10)
PART IV THE THUNDERING
36 The Giants Ride
345(8)
37 The Gun Club
353(16)
38 The Kind of Men Who Win a War
369(9)
39 On the Spot
378(7)
40 The Futility of Learning
385(13)
41 Future Rising
398(11)
42 Report and Echo
409(7)
43 The Opinion of Convening Authority
416(7)
44 Ironbottom Sound
423(8)
Acknowledgments 431(2)
Ships and Aircraft Types of the Guadalcanal Campaign 433(2)
Naval Battles of the Guadalcanal Campaign 435(2)
Total Naval Losses at Guadalcanal 437(2)
Source Notes 439(26)
Bibliography 465(26)
Index 491(22)
Photo Credits 513