The World in Flames

1. SEEDS OF TURMOIL ; MUSSOLINI AND THE MASSES ; ABYSSINIA'S PLIGHT ; SPAIN'S ANGUISH ; JAPAN'S OUTLOOK ; STATEMENT AT LUSHAN ; RAPE OF NANKING ; HOSSBACH MEMORANDUM ; APPEASEMENT ; FRANCE GOES TO WAR ; 2. "ONLY MOVEMENT BRINGS VICTORY": BLITZKRIEG ; SOVIET-FINNISH WAR ; RETHINKING ARMORED WARFARE ; ROTTERDAM IN FLAMES ; FRANCE'S COLLAPSE ; STRANGE DEFEAT ; A CERTAIN EVENTUALITY ; DE GAULLE'S APPEAL TO FRANCE ; FRENCH COLLABORATION ; OCCUPIED POLAND ; AIR RAID ON SOUTHAMPTON ; LONDON IS BURNING ; 3. THE WIDENING WAR ; A WAR FOR FREEDOM? ; WARNING SIGNS FROM JAPAN ; JAPAN'S DECISION FOR WAR ; AVENGING WESTERN IMPERIALISM ; YAMAMOTO'S STRATEGY ; ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR ; PLAN DOG ; FORGING ALLIED STRATEGY ; ALLIED GRAND STRATEGY ; DESERT WAR ; SURVIVAL IN NORTH AFRICA ; GERMANY STRIKES EAST ; "THE CRIMINAL ORDERS" ; SAVING MOSCOW ; COMBAT ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT ; HITLER'S OBSTINANCE ; 4. MOBILIZING FOR WAR ; ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY ; MEXICAN-AMERICAN DISCRIMINATION ; FACTORIES ON RAILS ; PRODUCING FOR VICTORY ; FORD'S WILLOW RUN ; GERMANY'S DELAYED MOBILIZATION ; GERMAN FORCED LABOR ; CHICANAS IN THE FACTORY ; NAVAJO CODE TALKERS ; AN ANTHROPOLOGIST GATHERS INTELLIGENCE ; PHOTO INTELLIGENCE ; THE ROLE OF SCIENCE ; 5. THE TIDE TURNS: JUNE-DECEMBER 1942 ; THE MOOD IN AMERICA ; ROMMEL REFLECTS ON THE DESERT WAR ; BREAKTHROUGH AT EL ALAMEIN ; EISENHOWER REFLECTS ON OPERATION TORCH ; STALINGRAD: THE RAT'S WAR ; ADMIRAL UGAKI REFLECTS ON MIDWAY ; THE STRAIN OF JUNGLE WARFARE ; WINNING THE SOLOMONS ; WHY JAPAN LOST GUADALCANAL ; 6. THE EUROPEAN THEATER ; BOMBING PLOESTI ; FLYING A B-17 ; AREA BOMBING ; MASSACRE BY BOMBING ; U-BOAT PERIL ; GERMANY'S U-BOAT STRATEGY ; THE FALL OF MUSSOLINI ; THE POLISH RESISTANCE ; GREECE AT WAR ; YUGOSLAVIA'S PARTISANS ; SIEGE OF LENINGRAD ; PANZER WARFARE IN THE EAST ; SOVIET TACTICAL DOCTRINE ; BATTLE OF KURSK ; EISENHOWER AND OVERLORD ; D-DAY ; ERNIE PYLE'S WAR ; 7. THE ASIAN THEATER ; BATAAN DEATH MARCH ; "VINEGAR JOE" AND CHINA ; THE BRITISH ARMY IN BURMA ; JAPANESE OPERATIONS IN BURMA ; MARXISM AND BURMESE RESISTANCE ; THE INDIAN SITUATION ; MARINES ON PELELIU ; KAMIKAZE ATTACK ; THE DECISION TO USE THE BOMB ; PREPARING TO INVADE JAPAN ; HIROSHIMA ; 8. THE WAR AT HOME IN AMERICA ; THE RABBIS MARCH ON WASHINGTON ; TO UNDO A MISTAKE ; THE INTERNMENT OF GERMAN-AMERICANS ; WHY SHOULD WE MARCH? ; NEW WORLD A-COMING ; THE ZOOT SUITERS ; DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MEXICAN-AMERICANS ; THE STOCKING PANIC ; PRAYER AT IWO JIMA ; READJUSTING TO FAMILY LIFE ; 9. THE CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR ; THE NAZI NEW ORDER ; THE FOUR FREEDOMS ; THE ATLANTIC CHARTER ; THE GI'S PERSPECTIVE ; JAPAN AND GREATER EAST ASIA ; THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPANESE CONDUCT ; SOLDIERS UNDER STRESS ; CIVILIANS UNDER STRESS ; RELIGION IN THE SKIES ; REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY ; CHRISTIAN MORALITY IN WARTIME ; 'MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY' ; GANDHI AND NON-VIOLENCE ; THE NEW IMPERATIVES OF EDUCATION ; RADIO ON THE HOME FRONT ; FILM AND PROPAGANDA ; WAR BONDS AND MASS PERSUASION ; THE WELFARE STATE ; 10. THE INHUMANITY OF MAN: THE HOLOCAUST ; DEFINING GENOCIDE ; EUTHANASIA ; ATROCITIES IN KAMENETS-PODOLSKY ; THE YOUNGEST VICTIMS ; WANNSEE CONFERENCE ; A POLISH WITNESS TO MASSACRE ; LIDICE ; THE WARSAW GHETTO ; HIMMLER AND THE FINAL SOLUTION ; THE HOLOCAUST IN GREECE ; VON MOLTKE'S THOUGHTS ON RESISTANCE ; TREBLINKA ; 11. OUT OF THE "DARK AND DEADLY VALLEY" ; NAZIS TO THE BITTER END? ; LIBERATING THE DEATH CAMPS ; A MOTHER PONDERS THE WAR'S END ; THE GERMAN PROBLEM ; AMERICA'S PLANS FOR POSTWAR GERMANY ; THE NUREMBERG TRIALS ; DISPLACED JEWS IN OCCUPIED GERMANY ; JAPANESE BIOLOGICAL WARFARE ; THE TOKYO WAR TRIALS ; AMERICAN POLICY FOR POSTWAR JAPAN ; JAPAN ADJUSTS TO OCCUPATION ; REVOLUTION AND LIBERATION IN INDO-CHINA ; HO CHI MINH APPEALS TO TRUMAN ; AFRICA SPEAKS ; "THE LONG TELEGRAM" AND CONTAINMENT ; THE IRON CURTAIN ; THE AMERICAN CENTURY ; 12. COMMEMORATING WWII: CONFRONTING THE PAST, WRITING THE FUTURE ; REMEMBERING D-DAY AND THE BOYS OF POINTE DU HOC ; GERMANY COMMEMORATES THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF DEFEAT ; THE SOVIET UNION AND THE USES OF VICTORY ; THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM ; JAPAN AND THE WAR'S CONTESTED MEMORY ; JAPAN'S COMFORT WOMEN ; HIROSHIMA, CULTURE WARS, AND THE ENOLA GAY ; WORLD WAR II TIMELINE ; WORLD WAR II BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX