Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Prologue
Book I. IHTFP
Introduction
I. Halos and Horns
2. Imagination Is Funny
3. Showdown
Book II. Fields of Fire
Introduction
4. Fire at Sea
5. Music Bingo, Dummy Math, and Gamma Rays
6. Welcome to the Gallant Marines
7. The Crown Prince
8. The Bloody Filter
9. Do You Want to Go Home?
10. The Cherry Boy
11. The Natural
12. Trusting the System
13. 'Tis the Season to Be Jolly
14. Stranger in a Strange Land
15. The Reasonable and Honest War Criminal
16. Long Tall Sally
17. The Water Walker
18. Adult Education
19. A Tutorial with the Greats
20. Reentry
21. A Change of Heart
22. Pug Henry
23. Women Can't Fight
24. Guerrilla Warfare
25. Garlic in a Crowded Elevator
Book III. The Nightingale's Song
Introduction
26. Ollie, Bud, and John
27. The Candidate from Hanoi
28. Scorpions in a Jar
29. Noble Cause Redux
30. The Doubters
31. The Presbyterian Climax
32. Put 'Em Up, Put 'Em Up
33. Remember Yamamoto
34. An Alien Presence
35. I Don't Have Any Life
36. The White Tornado
37. The Biggest Hawk and the Biggest Dove
38. Where Was Al Krekich When We Needed Him?
39. Chinatown
Epilogue
A Note on Research Methods
Notes
Bibliography
Interviews
Acknowledgments
Index