Introduction -- Europe in 1914 -- Africa -- Europe in 1920 -- The French frontier between the World Wars -- Spain (1930s) -- Europe in 1939 -- The invasion of Poland (1939) -- The fall of France (1940) -- The partition of France -- The Battle of Britain (1940-1941) -- The Battle of the Atlantic (1940-1943) -- The desert war (1940-1942) -- The Battle of El Alamein (October-November 1942) -- The conquest of North Africa (November 1942-May 1943) -- Barbarossa : the invasion of the U.S.S.R. (June-September 1941) -- The drive on Moscow (October-December 1941) -- The Caucasus campaign (May-November 1942) -- The Stalingrad campaign (September 1942-January 1943) -- Kursk (Summer 1943) -- The Soviets' move west (December 1943- April 1944) -- Resistance -- Strategic bombing (1942-1945) -- Italy (1943-1944) -- Operation Overlord : the Normandy invasion (June 1944) -- The Allied advance (June-August 1944) -- The Battle of White Russia (Summer 1944) -- The liberation of France (August-September 1944) -- The Battle of the Bulge (December 1944) -- The defeat of Nazi Germany (1945) -- The fall of Berlin (April 1945) -- The liberation of the camps (1945) -- Occupied Germany -- Postwar Europe -- Asia in the early 20th century -- China in the early 20th century -- The expansion of Japan to 1938 -- China divided : the long march (1934-1935) -- Pearl Harbor (December 1941) -- The conquest of Southeast Asia (December 1941-June 1942) -- The Battle of Midway (June 1942) -- New Guinea (1942-1944) -- The Central Pacific drive (November 1943-July 1944) -- The Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 1944) -- The starvation of the home islands -- Okinawa (Spring 1945) -- China-Burma-India -- The air war (1944-1945) -- The atomic bomb (August 1945) -- Occupied Japan -- Independent Asia.