Prologue -- Act I. Behind the scenes in a sundered country: the Nazis set the stage in the European Theater -- Introducing the Fuhrer, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler -- The road to the Third Reich -- From choric theater to party rally -- From party rally to German cinema -- Theater of the absurd -- Entr'acte -- Act II. Curtain going up : the lion roars -- The home front: to the airwaves -- A counter-message gets through -- The British rewrite the German script -- Two British radio stations -- Act III. Point/counterpoint : dramatic conflict -- Roosevelt and the isolationists -- Churchill and Roosevelt write the script backstage -- The Nazi counter-message to America -- FDR and a platoon of poets -- The American "patriotic" press responds! -- War comes to America's movie theaters -- On the road with Wild Bill Donovan -- Act IV. Before the final curtain -- The Allies launch a crusade -- Stalingrad compels a revision of the Nazi script -- Interlude -- The Tehran Conference -- A D-Day production -- Miscues and misinterpretations of the Allied script -- Operation Joker -- The beginning of the end -- The end of the beginning.