Cover; The Second World War in Europe; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Publisher's Acknowledgements; Chronology; Who's Who; Glossary; Maps; Part One Background; 1 The Road to War; The Origins of the War; Preparing for War; Part Two The Second World War; 2 The Flow of Blitzkrieg, 1939-42; Campaigns East and West, 1939-40; Strategies for Survival and Expansion, 1940-41; The Limits of Blitzkrieg, 1941-42; 3 Peoples at War; Economies and Societies at War; Barbarism and the Holocaust; Collaboration and Resistance; 4 Conducting War; Technology and Intelligence. Alliances and StrategyStrategic Bombing and the U-Boat War; 5 The Ebb of Blitzkrieg, 1942-45; The Changing Balance of Fortune, 1942-43; Success and Failure South and East, 1943-44; Closing the Ring, 1944-45; Part Three Assessment; 6 The End of the War and After; Costs and the Division of Europe; Historical Debates; Winning and Losing; Part Four Documents; 1 Britain goes to war; 2 The mood in Berlin; 3 Blitzkrieg 1940; 4 Churchill's finest hour; 5 De Gaulle and resistance; 6 Stalin and Barbarossa; 7 Italo-German relations; 8 Boffins at war; 9 Stalingrad diary; 10 The Red Army. 11 Himmler on race12 Goebbels and terror propaganda; 13 Unconditional surrender; 14 Workers' attitudes in wartime Britain; 15 Allied production operations compared; 16 Speer on Allied bombing; 17 Under the bombs; 18 Death of a B-17; 19 U-boat under attack; 20 On being shelled; 21 Goebbels on the turning of the tide; 22 Ambush in Sicily; 23 Summary justice on the Eastern front; 24 Allied vs German tanks; 25 Airpower over Normandy; 26 Hitler in command; 27 The surrender of Berlin; 28 The commandant of Auschwitz interviewed; Guide to Further Reading; References; Index; Plate.