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| PROLOG | 5 |
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| PART 1: A CERTAIN ADMIRAL FLETCHER | 13 |
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History and Fletcher. 14 - The war and the organizations. Why those six months? 15 - Why Fletcher? 16 - The avenger of Pearl Harbor. The luck of the generals. 17 - Improvements continue and criticism continues. The path to excellence. 18 - What is valuable and what shines. The team, the delegation and the setback of the TC. 19 - Who wins the battles? Who loses wars? 20 - Talent and charisma. 21 - The myth and the legend. 22 - The true bravery. 23 - The price of liberty. 24 - Do it for our children. 25 |
| Book I: ONLY IN HELL | 26 |
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| PART 2: IF ALL THE PEOPLE WERE BROTHERS . . . | 27 |
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| The great victim of Pearl Harbor. Yamamoto and Japan's dreams. 27 - Pearl Harbor. What for? 28 - The actions: 1940. 30 - The actions 1941. 31 - The facts of the case. 32 |
| PART 3: THE INFAMY OF PEARL HARBOR. | 35 |
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| On this Sunday morning. 36 - They toll for you. 37 - A plot, What for? The great strategy. Force, time and firmness. 38 - Three times are many times. 39 - . . .and only in ten minutes . . . Hints of a conspiracy. 40 - The blames in their places. 41 - The absence of the aircraft carriers. Take advantage of a tragedy. 42 - Vacant ocean and messages from Yamamoto. The motivations of a war. 43 - The hints of the attack. 44 - The false alternative. This is the war. 45 - But Roosevelt, Did he know? The sentence of history. 46 - It was a morning and December laughed. But that morning they came for me. Only in hell. 47 |
| BOOK II: THE GLORY OF THOSE DAYS. | 49 |
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| PART 4: I SHALL RETURN | 50 |
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| Douglas MacArthur. 51 - Dugout Doug. Fletcher saves Australia. 52 - Wake. The great commander of the Pacific. 53 - Doolittle's adventure. 54 - The battle of Coral Sea. 55 - Fletcher and the structure. 59 - Oh the Laytons! The long road. 60 |
| PART 5: THE MOST GLORIOUS HOUR FOR THE UNITED STATES | 62 |
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| Midway : Japan's Waterloo. Only one word. 63 - The big inflection point. 64 - Time for glory and time for victory. 65 - In search of a tragedy. The six months of Yamamoto. 66 - The warning of May. 67 - The plan for a tragedy. 68 - History of ten decisions that changed history. Rochefort's hoax. Washington's mistakes and fears. 69 - December's criminals. Spruance´s nomination. 70 - Liberty's sword. 71 |
| PART 6: WHEN JUNE WAS DAWNING . . . (FLETCHER'S 50 HOURS) | 72 |
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| The race to "Point Luck". 73 - The days of Midway. 74 - "Victory is a dangerous opportunity." 75 - "by the dawn's early light". 76 - Separate the forces? 77 - What will history say about them? 78 - The infinite solitude of command. 79 - Whims of the war. 80 - The unending mistakes . . . 81 - . . . and the end of the dreams. 82 - Victory's noise. 83 - Three enemy carriers on fire. 84 - Next to him until the end. 85 - The decline of an empire. 86. |
| PART 7: THE TWILIGHT OF GLORY | 90 |
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| Home sweet home. 91 - It could have been . . . 92 - The urgent and the important. 93 - A last present for an old soldier. 94 |
| BOOK III: THE LEGACY OF THE MASTER | 96 |
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| PART 8: THE TWO BATTLES OF MIDWAY | 97 |
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| The man that walks on the bridge. 98 - The delegation to Spruance. 99 - Better or more fortunate? 100 - The two battles of Midway. 101 - Fletcher's battle (The 50 hours). 102 - Spruance and the battle that never was. 103 - An enemy that flees, bridge of silver. 104 - A report on roars. 106 - Separate the aircraft carriers !! 107 - "express my admiration". 108 - They left them alone. 109 - Midway command matrix. 110 |
| PART 9: THE PRICE OF REASON | 111 |
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| Fletcher and strategy. 112 - Administrating Resources. Kanban and Just in Time . . . in a bank? 117 - Pacific decision levels. 118 - Midway decision matrix. 120 - At the end of time. 122 - The simplicity of excellence. 123 - Mirror, mirror . . . 124 - The still pending personal vindications. 125 - "My dear Ernie." 126 - Poor Nimitz ! 127 - "I stand before you today . . . ". 128 - About natures and admirals. 129 - The orders to Midway. 130 - Strategy: to know or not to know. 131 |
| PART 10: TOMORROW YOU WILL HAVE FOUR STARS | 132 |
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| Midway : Waterloo . . . for Japan? Thank God for the Navy. The man that had to come back. 133 - The man that didn't want to come back. 134 - Okinawa : the last battle. 134 - "Hush'd be the camps today," The hinge of fate. 135 - What did the days of Fletcher leave? What did his days leave to Fletcher? Thank you, Admiral. 136 - Midway was his fifth star. 137 |
| EPILOGUE : TODAY THE GUNS ARE SILENT . . . | 138 |
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| They don't know what they are doing. 140 - Oh Captain, my Captain! 141 - Bibliography and Internet. 142 - Yorktown and Hiryu. 144 - Midway and the movies. The author's career. 145 - The back cover. 146 |