I: Family history, education, and career (1874-1939)
Early years
University studies and vocational training
Guisan as a farmer, estate owner, and militia officer
Guisan as divisional commander and corps commander
Politics in the 1930s
The general is elected
II: Commander-in-chief of the armed forces during World War II (1939-1945)
The first army positions, 1939-1940
Replacing the chief of the general staff
Cooperation with foreign powers
The general's personal staff
Investigation of the front movement
Alert during Germany's 1940 western campaign
Orders to the armed forces in June 1940
After France's defeat
The officer's conspiracy
Briefing at the Rütli
The Réduit strategy
The National Resistance Movement
Attempts to arrange a special mission to Berlin
The files of La Charité
The Däniker Affair
Relations with the federal council
Cooperation with chief of the General Staff Huber
Relations with subordinate commanders
Casting aside Chief Instructor Wille
Cases of treason, death sentences, and surveillance activities
The Schellenberg-Masson connection
The meeting in Biglen
The 1943 "March Alarm" and the Messerschmitt deal
The issue of censorship
The crisis of June 1944
Relations with the social democrats
The troops' morale, state of training, and armament
The final phase of wartime duty
III: After Guisan's service as Commander-in-Chief (1945-1960)
Trouble with Masson
Report on wartime duty
The controversy over lack of plans of operations
Conflict with Air Force Commander Bandi
Issue of the peacetime general
Misunderstanding with de Lattre de Tassigny
Honors and postwar travel
Guisan's retirement years.