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I. The German breakout: 1939-1941. Poland 1939 / Caleb Carr
"Almost a miracle" / Robert A. Doughty
"Bloody marvelous" / Anthony Bailey
After Dunkirk / Bruce I. Gudmundsson
"Undaunted by odds" / William Manchester
Hitler's D Day / David Shears
Could Sea Lion have worked? / David Shears
Barbarossa / Williamson Murray
II. The Great East Asia war. The might-have-beens of Pearl Harbor / Eliot A. Cohen
Tokyo, December 8, 1941 / Theodore F. Cook Jr.
The other Pearl Harbor / D. Clayton James
King of Bataan / Thaddeus Holt
III. World at war: 1942-1943. The Channel dash / Michael H. Coles
Patrolling Guadalcanal / William H. Whyte
The day the Hornet Ssnk / Alvin Kernan
The battle that never happened / David M. Glantz
Eighth Army eyewitness to El Alamein / George Greenfield
Stalingrad / Antony Beevor
Diary of a tail gunner / John Gabay
Churchill and his generals / Eliot A. Cohen
The turning points of Tarawa / Joseph H. Alexander
The Kwai that never was / Stanley Weintraub
Orde Wingate: rebellious misfit / Charles Berges
IV. The secret war. Gott Mit whom? / David Balme and John McCormick
Decima MAS / Paul Kemp
Sabotaging Hitler's bomb / Dan Kurzman
Beachhead labrador / W.A.B. Douglas
The deceivers / Thaddeus Holt
Peppermint and Alsos / Ferenc M. Szasz
V. The end in Europe: 1944-1945. The airborne's watery triumph / T. Michael Booth and Duncan Spencer
Rommel's last battle / David Fraser
Falaise: the trap not sprung / Carlo D'Este
In defense of Montgomery / Alistair Horne
Did strategic bombing work? / Williamson Murray
The Black Knight / Caleb Carr
The last barrier / Stephen E. Ambrose
The last picture show / George Feifer
Berlin / John Keegan
VI. Armageddon in the Pacific: 1944-1945. The myth of the Saipan suicides / Haruko Taya Cook
The uncommon commoner / Eric Morris
A Kamikaze's story / Kanji Suzuki and Tadao Morimoto
Okinawa / Bruce I. Gudmundsson
The right man / Victor Davis Hanson
Previews of hell / Edward J. Drea
The Soviet invasion of Japan / David M. Glantz
The voice of the crane / Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar.
"Almost a miracle" / Robert A. Doughty
"Bloody marvelous" / Anthony Bailey
After Dunkirk / Bruce I. Gudmundsson
"Undaunted by odds" / William Manchester
Hitler's D Day / David Shears
Could Sea Lion have worked? / David Shears
Barbarossa / Williamson Murray
II. The Great East Asia war. The might-have-beens of Pearl Harbor / Eliot A. Cohen
Tokyo, December 8, 1941 / Theodore F. Cook Jr.
The other Pearl Harbor / D. Clayton James
King of Bataan / Thaddeus Holt
III. World at war: 1942-1943. The Channel dash / Michael H. Coles
Patrolling Guadalcanal / William H. Whyte
The day the Hornet Ssnk / Alvin Kernan
The battle that never happened / David M. Glantz
Eighth Army eyewitness to El Alamein / George Greenfield
Stalingrad / Antony Beevor
Diary of a tail gunner / John Gabay
Churchill and his generals / Eliot A. Cohen
The turning points of Tarawa / Joseph H. Alexander
The Kwai that never was / Stanley Weintraub
Orde Wingate: rebellious misfit / Charles Berges
IV. The secret war. Gott Mit whom? / David Balme and John McCormick
Decima MAS / Paul Kemp
Sabotaging Hitler's bomb / Dan Kurzman
Beachhead labrador / W.A.B. Douglas
The deceivers / Thaddeus Holt
Peppermint and Alsos / Ferenc M. Szasz
V. The end in Europe: 1944-1945. The airborne's watery triumph / T. Michael Booth and Duncan Spencer
Rommel's last battle / David Fraser
Falaise: the trap not sprung / Carlo D'Este
In defense of Montgomery / Alistair Horne
Did strategic bombing work? / Williamson Murray
The Black Knight / Caleb Carr
The last barrier / Stephen E. Ambrose
The last picture show / George Feifer
Berlin / John Keegan
VI. Armageddon in the Pacific: 1944-1945. The myth of the Saipan suicides / Haruko Taya Cook
The uncommon commoner / Eric Morris
A Kamikaze's story / Kanji Suzuki and Tadao Morimoto
Okinawa / Bruce I. Gudmundsson
The right man / Victor Davis Hanson
Previews of hell / Edward J. Drea
The Soviet invasion of Japan / David M. Glantz
The voice of the crane / Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar.