I. The Unready

II. Westward (Censored) Ho!

III. Convoy

IV. All Ashore

V. The Shirtsleeve Baedeker

VI. The Last Bastion

VII. MacArthur and MacArthuriana

VIII. Road Company

IX. Darwin

X. Japs, Mostly Dead

XI. The Planes We Fight With

XII. Dakota in the Red Dust

XIII. As the Dutchman Flies

XIV. City Life

XV. Log of the Firecracker

XVI. Port of Bombs and Butterflies

XVII. Between Zeros

XVIII. Seven Deadly Young Men

XIX. Coral Sea

XX. Diggers at Work

XXI. Behind the Lines

XXII. The Tasman Bumps

XXIII. Homeward: The Odd Pace

Notes

Glossary

Originally published: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1943.

John Lardner (1913-60), the eldest son of legendary American humorist Ring Lardner, was a frequent and much-honored contributor to the New Yorker, True, and Sport magazines and wrote three books. His work has been collected by editor John Schulian in The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting (Nebraska, 2010). Alex Belth is the author of Stepping Up: The Story of All-Star Curt Flood and His Fight for Baseball Players' Rights.