From the Book - Random House trade paperback edition.
"Making a Man and a Soldier" Genesis of a Marine, 1898-1919
"The Great Lessons of Warfare" Haiti, 1919-1921
"I Have Some Perseverance" A Junior Officer in Peacetime, 1921-1928
"Days of Hard Marching" First Tour in Nicaragua, 1928-1930
"The Toughest Proposition" Fort Benning and Nicaragua, 1931-1932
"An Exceptionally Confident Officer" On the China Station, 1933-1936
"So Very Happy and Contented" Basic School and China Again, 1936-1941
"The Enemy Are on the Hill" New River and Samoa, September 1941-August 1942
"You're Not Going to Throw These Men Away" The First Weeks on Guadalcanal, September-October 1942
"You've Got Bayonets, Haven't You?" The Battle for Henderson Field, October 1942
"Evacuate Me, Hell!" Final Days on Guadalcanal, October-December 1942
"A Great Deal of Hard Work Ahead" Interlude in the Rear, January-December 1943
"Directing the Attack from Forward" Cape Gloucester, December 1943-February 1944
"Until the Downfall of the Japanese Empire" Cape Gloucester and Pavuvu, February-August 1944
"If There Is Such a Thing as Glory in War" Peleliu, September 1944
"Nobody's Got Use for a Combat Man" A Hero Without a War, October 1944-June 1950
"A Chance to Excel" The Inchon Landing, June-September 1950
"You'll Take a Lot Fewer Casualties" The Seizure of Seoul, September 1950
"Not My Way of Fighting a Battle" On to North Korea, October-November 1950
"Not All the Chinese in Hell" The Chosin Reservoir, November-December 1950
"Befuddled and Disgusted" Central Korea, December 1950-May 1951
"I Hope I Don't Get Hung" Training and Experimenting, May 1951-June 1952
"A School Teacher's Job" Training Other Men for War, June 1952-May 1954
"Go Down Slugging" Last Days in the Corps, June 1954-October 1955
"Never Forget the Battles of the Past" The Golden Years, 1955-1960
"Return with Your Shield or on It" The Twilight Years, 1960-1971.
