Introduction: Strategy, war and personality
Winston Churchill : the making of an imperial strategist
Joseph Stalin : the making of an ideological strategist
Franklin Roosevelt : the young maritime strategist
Benito Mussolini : the birth of a nationalist strategist
Adolf Hitler : art and war
Winston Churchill : learning strategic restraint
Joseph Stalin and the strategy of practicality
Franklin Roosevelt and the domestic policy of strategy
Benito Mussolini and bluffing as strategy
Adolf Hitler : victory and defeat
Interlude: The interwar years
Hitler, Stalin, and the Nazi-Soviet pact
Churchill, Hitler and the Battle of Britain
Mussolini, Churchill and Greece, 1940-41
Stalin, Hitler and Barbarossa
Roosevelt, Hitler and the road to war
Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler and the air-sea-super-battlefield
Mussolini, Churchill, Roosevelt and empire in the Mediterranean
Hitler, STalin and the Eastern front
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and the cross-channel invasion
Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill and the post-war world
Epilogue: The strategists' war.