Peace and rearmament -- The European democracies -- The revisionist states -- The unknown quantities -- The prewar series of crises -- Blitzkrieg in Poland -- Northern adventures -- The fall of France -- The Battle of Britain -- The United States and the war -- The battle of the Atlantic -- War in the Mediterranean -- The invasion of Russia -- Japan and the road to Pearl Harbor -- Allied conferences and plans -- Occupied Europe -- The Japanese offensives in the Pacific -- The battles for North Africa -- Crisis in Russia -- Allied strategic problems : upgrading the Pacific -- The European resistance movements -- The strategic bombing campaigns -- The collapse and invasion of Italy -- The Normandy Invasion and the Campaign of France -- Winning in the Pacific -- The collapse of Germany -- The collapse of japan -- Winning and losing.