From the Book - First American edition.
Allies turn the tide, 1943
From the Book - Revised edition.
Seeds of war, 1914-1938. The war to end war ; The flawed peace ; Fascism and Nazism ; Hitler takes power ; The Nazi state ; Civil wars in China ; Japan on the march ; Rise of the Axis ; Weakness of the democracies ; The Spanish Civil War ; Japan invades China ; Appeasing Hitler
Europe goes to war, 1939. The path to war ; Declarations of war ; Poland destroyed ; The phoney war ; Early skirmishes ; The winter war
Germany triumphant, 1940. The invasion of Denmark and Norway ; Blitzkrieg ; Dunkirk ; The evacuation of Dunkirk ; The fall of France ; The Battle of Britain ; The blitz ; Britain organizes for total war ; America backs Britain ; Italy enters the war
Widening war, 1941. Life under the swastika ; Governments in exile ; The secret war ; The u-boat war ; Hunting the Bismarck ; The war in the desert ; Conflicts in the middle east ; The Balkans invaded ; Operation Barbarossa ; Nazi massacres ; Moscow saved ; America on the brink ; Japan gambles on war ; Pearl Harbor
Shifting balance, 1942. The Japanese onslaught ; The new Japanese empire ; Coral Sea and Midway ; Guadalcanal ; Defending Australia ; America organizes for victory ; Secret armies ; The holocaust ; Malta and the Mediterranean ; El Alamein ; Torch landings ; Saving the Soviet Union ; The German drive to the east ; Soviet triumph at Stalingrad
Allies turn the tide, 1943. Allied leaders plan for victory ; Showdown in the Atlantic ; The invasion of Sicily ; Held by the Gustav Line ; Bombing Germany by day ; The German war industry ; The French resistance ; Prisoners of war in Europe ; The Battle of Kursk ; Island-hopping in the Pacific
Overwhelming force, 1944. Battles for the Marianas ; Return to the Philippines ; Suffering China ; Turning point in Burma ; The fall of Rome ; Preparing for D-Day ; D-Day landings ; Breakout from Normandy ; Hitler bomb plot ; Liberation of France and Belgium ; Red Army offensive ; Warsaw uprising ; Resistance and civil war in Greece ; Balkan snakepit ; German secret weapons ; Operation Market Garden ; Battle of the Bulge
Endgame, 1945. Destruction of Germany's cities ; The Allies invade the Reich ; Liberating the Nazi death camps ; Final offensives in Europe ; Deaths of the dictators ; The Battle for Iwo-Jima ; Okinawa ; Japan under siege ; Subjects of the emperor ; Potsdam Conference ; Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; Japan surrenders
Aftermath, 1946-1950. Counting the cost ; The fate of the defeated ; The Iron Curtain ; Rebirth of Japan and West Germany ; The end of empires ; Red China ; The Cold War ; The war remembered.