Introduction --Deja vu -- 1919-the first year of WW II and into the 1920s -- Crash! -- A new order emerging -- Dictators, dictators, dictators -- Ethiopia - the Saar-Rhineland-Spain-Axis -- The birth of the Axis -- The new order blossoms, the old order fades -- 11 months -- Der tag -- Axis: more successes, some setbacks -- From 11 to 30 -- Kicking in the door -- December 7, 1941, the course of WW II is drastically altered -- March 1942 - on to victory - again -- Onto Baku, onto Stalingrad, onto India -- The European Axis begins to come apart -- The Axis big three becomes the Axis big two -- The decline of the Axis -- D-day and more -- The beginning of the end in Europe and the end of the beginning in Asia -- 1945 -- The end in Asia -- Their fate -- Bibliography -- Index.