- Foreword Alan Bullock
- Chronology
- Key to Maps
- Part I: The Inter-War Period, 1919-1939
- The Peace Settlement, 1919-1923
- The Depression, 1929
- Communism and Fascism, 1917-1934
- Sino-Japanese Rivalry, September 1931-December 1941
- The Road to War in Europe, March 1935-August 1939
- European Armed Forces in 1939
- Part II: The Axis Ascendant, September 1939-June 1942
- The Greater German Reich Alan Bullock
- Hitler’s Europe, November 1942 Alan Bullock
- Russo-German Invasion of Poland, October 1939
- The Winter War, November 1939-March 1940
- The Phoney War, September 1939-April 1940
- Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-April 1940
- Denmark and Norway, April-June 1940
- Blitzkrieg in the West, May-June 1940
- The Battle of Britain, July-October 1940
- The Blitz, September 1940-May 1941
- Bombing of Germany, September 1940-February 1942
- Battle of the Atlantic, June 1941-June 1942
- War in East Africa, June 1940-November 1941
- The Western Desert, March-June 1941
- Iraq, Syria and Iran, April-September 1941
- Mediterranean Naval War, June 1940-November 1942
- The Western Desert, June-December 1941
- The Western Desert, January-June 1942
- Operation Barbarossa I, June-August 1941
- Operation Barbarossa II, June-October 1941
- Operation Typhoon, October-December 1941
- The Battle of Moscow, December 1941-June 1942
- Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
- Malaya and the Philippines, December 1941-May 1942
- Dutch East Indies, January-June 1942
- Burma, January-May 1942
- The Secret War
- Part III: Turning the Tide, June 1942-July 1943
- Battle of the Atlantic, June 1942-May 1943
- Bombing of Germany, February 1942-July 1943
- The Western Desert, June-October 1942
- The Western Desert, October 1942-January 1943
- North-West Africa, November 1942-February 1943
- North-West Africa, March-May 1943
- German Advance on the Caucasus, June-September 1942
- Battle for Stalingrad, September 1942-February 1943
- The Siege of Leningrad, September 1941-January 1944
- Battle for Kharkov, January-March 1943
- Battle of Kursk, July 1943
- Coral Sea and Midway, May-June 1942
- Guadalcanal, August 1942-February 1943
- New Guinea/New Georgia, July 1942-August 1943
- Burma, September 1942-August 1943
- War Economies of the Major Powers
- Part IV: Allied Offensives, July 1943-December 1944
- Sicily, July-August 1943
- Invasion of Italy, September-December 1943
- Monte Cassino and Anzio, January-May 1944
- Advance to the Gothic Line, June-December 1944
- Russian Counter-offensives, July-December 1943
- Leningrad and the Baltic States, January-October 1944
- The Ukraine, December 1943-May 1944
- Resistance in the East, June-August 1944
- The Balkans, August-December 1944
- Bombing of Germany, August 1943-April 1944
- Planning Overlord, March 1941-May 1944
- D-Day, 6 June 1944
- Battle for Normandy, June-July 1944
- Falaise and the Liberation of Paris, August 1944
- Operation Dragoon, August-September 1944
- Stalemate in the Fall [inc Operation Market-Garden], September-November 1944
- The Gilberts and the Marshalls, November 1943-February 1944
- Mariana and Palau Islands, June-August 1944
- Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944
- Leyte and Leyte Gulf, October-December 1944
- War in China, April-December 1944
- Burma, November 1943-December 1944
- Weapons of War
- Part V: The Allies Victorious, December 1944-September 1945
- Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January 1945
- Advance to the Rhine, Feburary-March 1945
- Crossing the Rhine, March 1945
- Bombing of Germany, August 1944-May 1945
- The End in Italy, April-May 1945
- Advance in Germany, April-May 1945
- The Vistula-Oder Campaign, January-February 1945
- Clearing the Balkans, December 1944-May 1945
- Berlin, April-May 1945
- Liberation of Burma, November 1944-August 1945
- Liberation of the Philippines, January-August 1945
- Iwo Jima and Okinawa, February-June 1945
- Bombing of Japan, June 1944-August 1945
- Soviet Invasion of Manchuria, August 1945
- The Legacy of War
Contents
- words by Randall Jarrell
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