World War II: A Military and Social History

The Origins of the Second World War

Hitler’s Challenge to the International System, 1933–1936

The Failure of the International System

The Coming of War

Blitzkrieg

The German Offensive in the West

“their Finest Hour” — Britain Alone

The Battle of Britain

Hitler Moves East

The Germans Before Moscow

The War in Asia

The Japanese Gamble

The Height of Japanese Power

Turning the Tide in the Pacific — Midway and Guadalcanal

The War in North Africa

War in the Mediterranean — The Invasions of Sicily and Italy

Stalingrad — The Turning Point on the Eastern Front

Eisenhower and Operation Overlord

D-Day to Paris

Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge

Advance Across the Pacific

Turning Point in the Southwest Pacific — Leyte Gulf and the Philippines

The Final Drive for Japan — Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Fire-Bombing of Tokyo

War in the Air

Hitler's New Order in Europe

“the Man’s Army”

Daily Life, Culture, and Society in Wartime

The Race for Berlin

Truman, the Bomb, and the End of the War in the Pacific

The Costs of War