Includes maps of: North Africa and Southern Europe; [Algeria - Tunisia]; Southwest Pacific Campaign, August 1942; Pacific Campaign - the Advances across the Pacific, November 1943-May 1944; Western Europe; Normandy and the Anglo-American Advance to the Seine, June-August 1944; German Defeat in the West, August-September 1944; Pacific Campaign - the Advances Across the Pacific, June 1944-July 1945; Okinawa.

Day of infamy -- America in 1941 -- The lion and the albatross : FDR and Lindy -- The force of events -- The government cannot mobilize -- Rout and recovery -- The people are willing -- Operation Torch and the great debate overs strategy -- The sea of dreams -- The politics of sacrifice -- Minorities and women : the democratic failure -- The transformation of everyday life -- Two wars in the pacific : Guadalcanal to Luzon -- Air power : the democratic delusion -- The GI -- Overlord -- Victory in Europe -- The war winds down at home -- The destruction of Japan -- The reckoning.