Part 1 Dark Clouds Form Over Europe 1 --
Those Who Repeat the Past 4 --
A Different Kind of Boom 4 --
Black Hats, White Hats, and Stalin 5 --
The Allies' Skeletons 11 --
True Freedom Fighters 11 --
From Abyssinia to Zyklon 12 --
2 The War That Didn't End All Wars 13 --
No Garden Party at Versailles 17 --
Needed: An International Police Officer 18 --
A World Government for an Ungovernable World 19 --
A League of Their Own 20 --
A Hindenburg Without the Hot Air 21 --
Brothers, Can You Spare a Billion? 22 --
Depressing Depression 23 --
People Don't Kill, Guns Do 24 --
3 The Little Artist Seeks a Bigger Canvas 27 --
A Room with a Viewpoint 30 --
From Democrat to Dictator 31 --
Hitler Goes for the Gold 37 --
Follow the "Leader" 38 --
4 The Bell Tolls for War 41 --
Oiling the War Machine 42 --
Drawing a Line at the Rhine 43 --
Americans Are Stuck in Neutral 44 --
Making Fascism Fashionable 45 --
Tanks Versus Spears 46 --
The Red Sun Also Rises 47 --
What Hemingway Missed 48 --
5 Peace in Whose Time? 51 --
The Anschluss Was No Sound of Music 52 --
"I Have No More Territorial Demands" 54 --
The Night of the Broken Glass 56 --
Entangling Alliances 59 --
Totalitarians Unite! 60 --
6 Goose-Stepping Across Europe 65 --
The Nazis Roll Over the Poles 66 --
Britain Mounts a Confetti Campaign 66 --
Interested Spectators 69 --
The Winter of Stalin's Discontent 70 --
7 The Not So Phony War 75 --
The Allies Start to Fight 77 --
Hitler Takes the Low Road 79 --
The French Are Fried 83 --
8 Puttin' on the Brits 91 --
America Takes a First Step 92 --
Still Some Fight in the French 93 --
The Battle of Britain 95 --
Hitler Declares Victory 98 --
An Arsenal for Democracy 99 --
9 America Inches Closer to the Spreading War 101 --
War Is as Easy as ABC 103 --
Arms on the Installment Plan 103 --
Hitler Won't Take "No" for an Answer 104 --
Mussolini's Greek Misadventure 105 --
Stalin Protects His Back 106 --
Mercury Conquers Crete 106 --
The Atlantic Is Not the Pacific 107 --
Italy's Brief Empire 108 --
Enter the Desert Fox 109 --
10 Adolf Turns on Joe 111 --
Shifting Alliances 112 --
Mindless Bolsheviks 113 --
Stalin Tries to Buy Time 114 --
Japan Threatens the West 117 --
The Atlantic Charter 118 --
Russians Dream of a White Christmas 121 --
So Close, Yet So Far 122 --
Part 3 The Yanks Are Coming! 125 --
11 The Day of Infamy Arrives 127 --
Grabbing Supplies to Meet Demand 128 --
No Surprise from Japan 128 --
Empire Versus Empire 129 --
Maybe Yamamoto Wasn't So Smart 133 --
Island Paradises No More 134 --
12 War in the Pacific 139 --
Britain's Humiliation 140 --
The Bataan Death March 142 --
Doolittle's Raiders 142 --
Corralled in the Coral Sea 144 --
Midway Tips the Balance 145 --
America Takes Offense 147 --
13 We're Coming for You, Adolf 151 --
Huns First, Japs Later 152 --
Slaves of the Reich 153 --
No Let-Up in the Atlantic 153 --
Russia's Cold Winter 156 --
Rommel's Wild Ride 159 --
Torching the Germans 161 --
The War Machine Revs Up 166 --
Hollywood Commandos 168 --
The Actors Fight for Real 169 --
Celebrities Find a New Spotlight 170 --
Athletes Play on a Different Field 171 --
War Is Good Politics 171 --
All the News That's Censored to Fit 172 --
America Interns Its Own 175 --
The Great Patriotic War 175 --
WACs, WASPs, and WAVES 176 --
Segregation in the Army 178 --
The Tuskegee Airmen 179 --
Japanese-American GIs 180 --
Part 4 Allies Kick Axis 183 --
15 The Axis Goes in Reverse 185 --
Envisioning Victory 186 --
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 187 --
Better to Give Than Receive 188 --
The Blood-Soaked Island of Tarawa 190 --
War Hits Home in Germany 191 --
Making Hamburger of Hamburg 193 --
Knocking Out Peenemunde's Rockets 194 --
16 Taking the War to Hitler 197 --
The Torch Is Passed 198 --
Fallout from the Fox's Fall 199 --
The Man Who Never Was 200 --
Sicily Is Rubbed Out 201 --
No Roman Holiday, Yet 203 --
Battle Royale at Cassino 205 --
17 The Eastern Front Falls Back 207 --
Hitler's Friends Urge Peace 208 --
The Red Army Rolls 208 --
Hitler's Blame Game 209 --
Foreshadowing a New Empire 209 --
Still Plenty of Fight in the Germans 210 --
Molotov's Diplomatic Cocktail 212 --
Here We Snow Again 213 --
The Big Three Finally Meet 213 --
Fend for Yourselves, Guys 214 --
18 Pacific Island-Hopping 219 --
Reopening the Burma Road 220 --
Merrill's Marauders 222 --
Small Islands, High Human Cost 222 --
Planning For Japan 224 --
MacArthur's Return 225 --
The Battle of Bull's Run 228 --
Fighting the Japanese and the Elements 228 --
Japan Doesn't Know the War Is Over 229 --
Part 5 Let Freedom Ring 231 --
Hitler's Secret Weapons 234 --
Patton's Phantom Army 236 --
The Battle of Berlin 238 --
Massing the Troops 239 --
We'll Start the War from Right Here 243 --
No Day at the Beach 244 --
While Hitler Slept 247 --
Germany Gives Britain the Old V-1, 2 249 --
The Return of de Gaulle 250 --
20 For You the War Is Over 253 --
It Wasn't Hogan's Heroes 254 --
The Soldiers of Berga 256 --
The Horrors of Buchenwald 257 --
Murder at Mauthausen 260 --
Massacre at Malmedy 262 --
Prisoners in the Pacific 265 --
German POWs in the United States 265 --
The Ones Left Behind 266 --
21 Hitler Cheats Death 269 --
The Assassins' Plot Explodes 271 --
The Allies Take Offense 272 --
The Liberation of Paris 273 --
The Offensive Runs Out of Gas 274 --
No Picnics at Market-Garden 275 --
The Politics of War 277 --
The Battle of the Bulge 277 --
Hungry for Hungary 280 --
22 Victory in Europe 281 --
No Happy New Year for Germany 282 --
Yalta Sets the Agenda 282 --
Dresden Goes Up in Flames 284 --
Hitler's Last Stand 285 --
FDR's Death Stuns the World 286 --
The Siege of Berlin 286 --
Germany Surrenders 288 --
Dividing the Spoils at Potsdam 289 --
23 The Red Sun Sets 293 --
Unfinished Business in the Philippines 294 --
Olympic and Coronet 297 --
The Power of a Particle 298 --
The Manhattan Project 299 --
Keeping the Weapon Secret 301 --
The Gadget Becomes a Reality 302 --
The Final Countdown 303 --
Part 6 The Smoke Clears, and the Reckoning Begins 309 --
The Nuremberg Laws 312 --
The Nazi Euthanasia Program 314 --
The Final Solution 315 --
Building Walls Around the Jews 315 --
The Einsatzgruppen 317 --
Medical Experiments 321 --
Gypsies, Gays, and Jehovah's Witnesses 321 --
Americans Also Died in Camps 323 --
What's Different About the Jews? 325 --
25 Liberators, Rescuers, and Avengers 327 --
Flying Around Auschwitz 329
We Closed Our Eyes 334 --
"I Was Just Following Orders" 336 --
The Japanese Face the Music 342 --
"Justice" for the Victims of Berga 343 --
Still Hunting Nazis 344 --
26 Freedom's Heavy Price 347 --
The People Behind the Statistics 349 --
Economies in Shambles 350 --
Emerging from the Rubble 352 --
People Without a Country 353 --
A New Cold War Begins 355 --
The Nuclear Arms Race 356 --
The Disunited Nations 357 --
Telling the Story of World War II 358 --
Will World Wars End at Two? 359 --
B Victims of the Holocaust 363 --
D Marching in Time: A Chronology of World War II 375.
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