Prologue: History and Literature
1.Hitler, FDR, and American Writing in 1939
2.Prague after Munich: The Plight of Refugees in Martha Gellhorn's A Stricken Field
3. W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
4. Bertolt Brecht, The Svendborg Poems
5. Brecht, Poland, and Mother Courage
6. The Nazification of Romania in Olivia Manning's The Balkan Trilogy
7.The Fall of France in Marc Bloch's Strange Defeat and Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française
8. The Joke War in Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags
9.War, Fire, and Sex in Henry Green's Caught
Epilogue.