Table of Contents
The Axis Advance
Preface to War 3
Japan Chooses Force
The Birth of Fascism
The Nazi Reich
The Steps to War
Poland, the Atlantic, Scandinavia 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 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 50
Vichy and Free France
Operation sea lion
The Battle of Britain
Germany and the East
War Approaches the United States 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 75
Italy Attacks Greece and Egypt
Germany Subdues Yugoslavia and Greece
The War in the Western Desert
Blitzkrieg to Moscow 85
Operation barbarossa
The Battle of Moscow
Japan Enters the War 96
Japan Decides for War
Japanese War Plans
Pearl Harbor Attack; the U.S. Enters the War
Japanese Advance in the Pacific 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 AxisContained
The United States Halts Japan 125
The Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway
Guadalcanal
The Papuan Campaign
The Battle for the Atlantic 136
War on the U-boats
The North Russia Convoys
The Commandos and Combined Operations
German Thrust to the Caucasus 145
Russia Attempts to Seize the Initiative
Germany Drives South
The Battle of Stalingrad
German Disaster on the Don
The War in North Africa 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 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 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 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 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 237
Preparations for D-Day
Invasion
The Battle of the Beachhead
The Russian Drive, June 23-August 7
Drive to Germany 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 274
Leyte Preliminaries
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
Struggle for Leyte
Luzon
China, Burma, India 286
Defensive
Offensive
War Ends in Europe 295
Advance from the East
Attack from the Air
Advance from the West
Advance from the South
Collapse from Within
Climax in the Pacific 307
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Blockade and Strategic Bombardment
Surrender
Reflections
Deaths in World War II 323
Chronology, 1939-1945 325
Bibliography 330
Index 339
