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