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- 1.The Origins of the Second World War
- 2.Hitler’s Challenge to the International System, 1933–1936
- 3.The Failure of the International System
- 4.The Coming of War
- 5.Blitzkrieg
- 6.The German Offensive in the West
- 7.“their Finest Hour” — Britain Alone
- 8.The Battle of Britain
- 9.Hitler Moves East
- 10.The Germans Before Moscow
- 11.The War in Asia
- 12.The Japanese Gamble
- 13.The Height of Japanese Power
- 14.Turning the Tide in the Pacific — Midway and Guadalcanal
- 15.The War in North Africa
- 16.War in the Mediterranean — The Invasions of Sicily and Italy
- 17.Stalingrad — The Turning Point on the Eastern Front
- 18.Eisenhower and Operation Overlord
- 19.D-Day to Paris
- 20.Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge
- 21.Advance Across the Pacific
- 22.Turning Point in the Southwest Pacific — Leyte Gulf and the Philippines
- 23.The Final Drive for Japan — Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Fire-Bombing of Tokyo
- 24.War in the Air
- 25.Hitler's New Order in Europe
- 26.“the Man’s Army”
- 27.Daily Life, Culture, and Society in Wartime
- 28.The Race for Berlin
- 29.Truman, the Bomb, and the End of the War in the Pacific
- 30.The Costs of War