Foreword: "three colonels" / by Stanley Weintraub
The maximum "bloodletting and delay"
The First Army and Kwantung redeployments
The Pacific build-up and Berlin decision
"Not a recipe for victory "
"Victory might be salvaged"
Mistakes and misperceptions
A "target-rich environment"
Half a million Purple Hearts
Appendix A: G-2 estimate of enemy situation on Kyushu, U.S. Sixth Army, August 1, 1945
Appendix B: G-2 analysis of Japanese plans for the defense of Kyushu, U.S. Sixth Army, December 31, 1945
Appendix C: proclamation defining terms for Japanese surrender issued at Potsdam, July 26, 1945 (Potsdam Declaration)
Appendix D: extract from a letter written by James Michener, October 20, 1995.
