Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Preface -- 1. "Something Big Was Going to Happen"--Saiki Goes to War Footing -- Admiral Yamamoto Comes to Saiki -- Conflicted Pride -- 2. One Million Souls, One Heart -- The Attack -- Rallying the People -- Quiet Doubts -- 3. Oita Men Troop to War -- "Leaving My Hometown"--A Buddhist Priest's Gift for Hitler -- Oita Soldiers -- On to Nanjing -- Nanjing Legacy and the Pride of Oita -- Our Chinese Family Meets the 47th -- Securing Victory and Moving On -- 4. The War Expands and the People Mobilize -- Farmers and Fishermen -- Guarding the Emperor -- Empty Urns -- Pure Spirit of the Saipan Children -- 5. Invincible Japan -- Moral Education -- Hiding the Truth -- Military Education -- Learning to Kill, Preparing to Die -- The Beatings -- Creeping War Weariness -- 6. Fire from the Sky -- Prime Targets -- April 21, 1945 -- No Place to Hide -- Filling the Craters and Building the Shelters -- 7. "I Shall Die with Pleasure" -- Edgar's Encounter with the Kamikaze Boy -- Oita's Kamikaze -- 8. Never-ending Sirens -- Cancelling Classes and Evacuating Students -- Dodging Bullets and Delivering Babies -- 9. A Hard Price to Pay -- Child Scouts -- Easy Targets -- Taking Revenge: B-29 Is Downed -- Meanwhile on Okinawa -- 10. Donate Everything -- Children Join the Army -- Kamikaze Nightmares -- The Stench of Death -- 11. Eliminate the City -- Targeting Civilians -- Oita's Heroic Nurse -- Too Many Bombs, Too few Targets -- 12. Oita's Advisors to the Emperor -- Never Surrender -- The Advisors -- 13. The Lightning Bolt -- Digging In -- Nursing the Wounded -- No Taste for Invasion -- 14. We Didn't Surrender - The War Just Ended -- The Emperor's Voice -- Poison for the Women -- Defeated and Sent Home -- Ugaki's Pride -- Oita Men on the Missouri -- 15. Hungary, Confused, and Afraid -- Waiting