| The Axis Advance | |
| Preface to War | p. 3 |
| Japan Chooses Force | |
| The Birth of Fascism | |
| The Nazi Reich | |
| The Steps to War | |
| Poland, the Atlantic, Scandinavia | p. 18 |
| The Blitzkrieg Destroys Poland | |
| Sitzkrieg | |
| The War at Sea | |
| The Winter War | |
| The Altmark Affair | |
| Invasion of Denmark and Norway | |
| Germany Subdues Holland, Belgium, and France | p. 35 |
| Allied Preparations | |
| The German Plan | |
| Five Days for Holland | |
| The Battle for Belgium, May 10-15 | |
| The Battle for France, May 15-June 4 | |
| The Miracle of Dunkirk | |
| The Battle for France, June 5-25 | |
| U.S. Neutrality Weakens | |
| The Battle of Britain | p. 50 |
| Vichy and Free France | |
| Operation sea lion | |
| The Battle of Britain | |
| Germany and the East | |
| War Approaches the United States | p. 62 |
| Battle in the Atlantic, 1940-1941 | |
| The United States Begins De Facto War | |
| The Japanese Threat | |
| The argentina Conference and the Atlantic Charter | |
| War Comes to the Mediterranean | p. 75 |
| Italy Attacks Greece and Egypt | |
| Germany Subdues Yugoslavia and Greece | |
| The War in the Western Desert | |
| Blitzkrieg to Moscow | p. 85 |
| Operation barbarossa | |
| The Battle of Moscow | |
| Japan Enters the War | p. 96 |
| Japan Decides for War | |
| Japanese War Plans | |
| Pearl Harbor Attack; the U.S. Enters the War | |
| Japanese Advance in the Pacific | p. 107 |
| Midway, Guam, and Wake Island | |
| Hong Kong, Malaya, and Singapore | |
| The Netherlands East Indies and Burma | |
| Luzon, Bataan, and Corregidor | |
| The Doolittle Raid | |
| The Axis Contained | |
| The United States Halts Japan | p. 125 |
| The Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway | |
| Guadalcanal | |
| The Papuan Campaign | |
| The Battle for the Atlantic | p. 136 |
| War on the U-boats | |
| The North Russia Convoys | |
| The Commandos and Combined Operations | |
| German Thrust to the Caucasus | p. 145 |
| Russia Attempts to Seize the Initiative | |
| Germany Drives South | |
| The Battle of Stalingrad | |
| German Disaster on the Don | |
| The War in North Africa | p. 156 |
| Auchinleck and Crusader | |
| Malta | |
| Rommel's Summer Offensive | |
| Alamein | |
| Background for TORCH | |
| The TORCH Is Lit | |
| Drive to Tunis, November 1942-May 1943 | |
| Conference at Casablanca, January 14-24, 1943 | |
| Sicily and Italy | p. 173 |
| Operation husky | |
| Mussolini Falls, Italy Surrenders | |
| The Italian Campaign Begins | |
| Anzio Conceived | |
| The Battle of Cassino | |
| The Anzio Beachhead | |
| The Drive to Rome | |
| Russia Recovers Her Losses | p. 192 |
| The Battle of Kursk | |
| The Russian Offensive, July 1943-June 1944 | |
| Hitler's New Order | |
| The Big Three at Teheran | |
| Progress in the Pacific | p. 201 |
| Cartwheel Preliminaries | |
| Cartwheel Launched | |
| Tarawa | |
| Kwajalein, Eniwetok, and Truk | |
| CARTWHEEL Concluded | |
| Hollandia, Wakde, Biak | |
| Saipan and the Philippine Sea | |
| Guam and Tinian | |
| Strategic Air Warfare | p. 222 |
| Strategic Bombing of Japan, June 1944-March 1945 | |
| Strategic Bombing, Europe | |
| The Combined Bomber Offensive, January 1943-June 1944 | |
| The War Ends | |
| The Second Front | p. 237 |
| Preparations for D-Day | |
| Invasion | |
| The Battle of the Beachhead | |
| The Russian Drive, June 23-August 7 | |
| Drive to Germany | p. 253 |
| Breakout | |
| The Falaise Pocket | |
| Pursuit | |
| Market-Garden | |
| Winter Frustration | |
| Anvildragoon | |
| Russian Drive Through the Balkans | |
| The Italian Campaign, June-December, 1944 | |
| The Battle of the Bulge | |
| Return to the Philippines | p. 274 |
| Leyte Preliminaries | |
| The Battle of Leyte Gulf | |
| Struggle for Leyte | |
| Luzon | |
| China, Burma, India | p. 286 |
| Defensive | |
| Offensive | |
| War Ends in Europe | p. 295 |
| Advance from the East | |
| Attack from the Air | |
| Advance from the West | |
| Advance from the South | |
| Collapse from Within | |
| Climax in the Pacific | p. 307 |
| Iwo Jima | |
| Okinawa | |
| Blockade and Strategic Bombardment | |
| Surrender | |
| Reflections | |
| Deaths in World War II | p. 323 |
| Chronology, 1939-1945 | p. 325 |
| Bibliography | p. 330 |
| Index | p. 339 |
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