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OFFICE POLITICS
A Historical Novel Culminating in a revised Battle of Midway
by
Bill Todd
tofu.todd@juno.com
To be accompanied by a strategic computer simulation of the battle programmed
by the author.
Prologue: From Fact
to Fiction
Part I
1. A Young Lady in
Awkward Circumstances
2. Fun at the Mayflower
3. Murphy's View
4. The Lady Speaks
for Herself
5. Beating the Bushes
6. The Art of Rejection
7. A Japanese-American
Lady
8. An Unusual
Initiative
9. A Youthful
View of the World
10. Murphy's New View
11. The Sunny South
12. A Spring Vacation
13. The Voodoo Religion
14. A Need to Go Abroad
Part II
15. A New Country
16. Setting Up Operations
17. Further Organization
18. Fighter
v. Fighter
19. Summing
Matters Up
20. Plucking
Geese
21. High
Politics
22. Timmy
23. Serenity
at Sea
Part III
24. Chart-Room
Politics
25.
The Eve of Battle
26.
Attack
27.
Sendai's Strike
28.
The Decisive Moments
29.
An Unexpected Source of Information
30.
The Need to Innovate
31.
A Last Attempt
32.
Post-Mortem
33.
The Politics of Defeat
34.
Tears of Victory
The Computer Simulation
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