Introduction: A world in conflict -- WAR IN THE MAKING: In defense of the Treaty of Versailles / Mark Mazower -- Totalitarianism : prelude to war / Charles Messenger -- Why Britain had to fight / Herbert Agar -- WAGING WAR IN EUROPE: The world through Hitler's eyes / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- France defeated / Alistair Horne -- The Battle of Britain / Richard Hough and Denis Richards -- U-boats: the scourge of the Atlantic / Samuel Eliot Morison -- THE WAR EXPANDS: The Holocaust: a crises of human behavior and values / George M. Kren and Leon Rappoport -- Did Roosevelt want Japan to attack Peaarl Harbor? / Morton A. Kaplan -- Midway: Yamamoto's most complete failure / James C. Ryan -- Disaster in North Africa / William L. Shirer -- The fall of Mussolini / Henri Michel -- War in the Pacific: Why Japan lost / Martin Caidin -- THE FALL OF THE AXIS: D-Day from a German perspective / Hans Spiedel -- A humiliating end to an era / Kenneth S. Davis -- At issue: America's decision to drop the atomic bomb / James E. Auer and Richard Halloran -- LEGACIES OF WAR: Germany at war's end / Maax Hastings -- Epilogue to war / Martin Gilbert -- World War II: a retrospective / Mark Arnold-Forster -- Nuremberg / Michael R. Marrus -- Image of a new nation / Mark Jonathan Harris, Franklin D. Mitchell, and Steven F. Schechter -- Appendix of documents.