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| Introduction | | xix | |
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| The Munich Conference: September 1938 | | | 1 | (3) |
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| Anti-Semitism and the Germans: 1938 | | | 4 | (5) |
| Last Warsaw Fort Yields to Germans | | |
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| The Fall of Poland: September 28, 1939 | | | 9 | (5) |
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| Paris Before the Fall: May 1940 | | | 14 | (11) |
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| Flight from Paris: June 1940 | | | 25 | (10) |
| ''Revengeful, Triumphant Hate'' | | |
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| French Humiliation at Compiegne: June 21, 1940 | | | 35 | (5) |
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| The London Blitz: September 1940 | | | 40 | (5) |
| ''This Dreadful Masterpiece'' | | |
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| London on Fire: The Raid of December 29, 1940 | | | 45 | (3) |
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| German Invasion of Greece: April 1941 | | | 48 | (15) |
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| Formulating Japanese Imperial Ideology: August 1941 | | | 63 | (6) |
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| Berlin After the Invasion of Russia: Autumn 1941 | | | 69 | (25) |
| ''The Worst News That I Have Encountered in the Last 20 Years'' | | |
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| America First Rally in Pittsburgh: December 7, 1941 | | | 94 | (5) |
| New York Herald Tribune: President's War Message | | |
| America Declares War: December 8, 1941 | | | 99 | (2) |
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| Japan Attacks the Philippines: December 8-28, 1941 | | | 101 | (8) |
| ''Prepare to Abandon Ship'' | | |
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| The Sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales: December 10, 1941 | | | 109 | (6) |
| ''Tanks and Cannons Standing Starkly in the Snow'' | | |
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| Devastation on the Moscow Front: December 1941 | | | 115 | (14) |
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| Nurses Under Fire in the Philippines: April 1942 | | | 129 | (4) |
| Flight Through the Jungle | | |
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| Stilwell's Retreat Through Burma: May 1942 | | | 133 | (13) |
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| The Merchant Marine and the Battle of the Atlantic: 1942 | | | 146 | (7) |
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| Carrier War in the Pacific: June 4, 1942 | | | 153 | (8) |
| Concentration Camp: U.S. Style | | |
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| The Internment of Japanese-Americans: 1942 | | | 161 | (3) |
| The New York Times: ''A Vast Slaughterhouse'' | | |
| Reports of Genocide in Eastern Europe: June 1942 | | | 164 | (4) |
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| Dorothy Lamour in Bangor, Maine: September 1942 | | | 168 | (6) |
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| Guadalcanal: September 7-24, 1942 | | | 174 | (37) |
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| African-Americans and the War: Discrimination and Protest, 1942 | | | 211 | (19) |
| The Girls of Elkton, Maryland | | |
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| Air War in Tunisia: January 1943 | | | 245 | (43) |
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| I Saw Regensburg Destroyed | | |
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| B-17 Raid on Germany: August 17, 1943 | | | 306 | (13) |
| Fear of Death as Green Troops Sail to Invasion | | |
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| Troop Ship to Salerno: September 1943 | | | 319 | (3) |
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| American Correspondent Wounded in Italy: November 1943 | | | 322 | (11) |
| from Tarawa: The Story of a Battle | | |
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| The Marines at Tarawa: November 1943 | | | 333 | (30) |
| ''The Target Was To Be the Big City'' | | |
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| Bombing Raid Over Berlin: December 2, 1943 | | | 363 | (8) |
| San Pietro a Village of the Dead; Victory Cost Americans Dearly | | |
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| Battle of San Pietro: Italy, December 1943 | | | 371 | (8) |
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| Spotting Artillery from a Piper Cub: Italy, 1943 | | | 379 | (15) |
| ''This One Is Captain Waskow'' | | |
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| The Death of an Infantry Officer: Italy, January 1944 | | | 394 | (3) |
| ''Wide Awake on an Island Beachhead'' | | |
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| The Southwest Pacific: February-March 1944 | | | 397 | (10) |
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| The Editors of Fortune (drawings by Mine Okubo): Issei, Nisei, Kibei | | |
| Japanese-American Internment: 1944 | | | 421 | (24) |
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| Women in War Plants: 1944 | | | 445 | (7) |
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| Battle and Breakout in Normandy | | |
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| ''The War Wasn't Over in This Section'': St. Malo, August 1944 | | | 471 | (15) |
| Daily News Writer Sees Man Slain at Her Side in Hail of Lead | | |
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| The Liberation of Paris: August 26, 1944 | | | 486 | (4) |
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| ''My Business Is Drawing'': A Cartoonist in Combat, 1943-44 | | | 490 | (19) |
| Rupert Trimmingham and others: Democracy? | | |
| African-Americans and the War: Correspondence from Yank, 1944 | | | 509 | (4) |
| Young Man Behind Plexiglass | | |
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| Profile of an American Bombardier: August 1944 | | | 513 | (16) |
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| ''War Is Fighting and Fighting Is Killing'': Peleliu, September 1944 | | | 529 | (38) |
| Now the Germans Are the Refugees | | |
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| The Fall of Aachen: October 1944 | | | 567 | (3) |
| U.S. Board Bares Atrocity Details Told by Witnesses at Polish Camps | | |
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| Eyewitness Report of Auschwitz: November 1944 | | | 570 | (7) |
| War in the Huertgen Forest | | |
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| ''A Solid Mass of Dark, Impenetrable Green'': The Huertgen Forest, November 1944 | | | 577 | (6) |
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| The Road to Bastogne: December 1944 | | | 583 | (8) |
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| Landing on Iwo Jima: February 1945 | | | 591 | (5) |
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| Assault Across the Roer: February 1945 | | | 596 | (10) |
| ''These Terrible Records of War'' | | |
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| Newsreels of Iwo Jima: March 1945 | | | 606 | (2) |
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| ''A Model of Destruction'': Cologne, March 1945 | | | 608 | (7) |
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| ''We Were Never Nazis'': Germans in Defeat, April 1945 | | | 615 | (8) |
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| The Death of F.D.R.: April 12, 1945 | | | 623 | (2) |
| ''For Most of It I Have No Words'' | | |
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| Buchenwald: April 15, 1945 | | | 625 | (5) |
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| The Death of Ernie Pyle: Ie Shima, April 18, 1945 | | | 630 | (3) |
| ''A Giant Whirlpool of Destruction'' | | |
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| The Russians in Berlin: April 1945 | | | 633 | (11) |
| The War in Europe Is Ended! | | |
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| The German Surrender: May 7, 1945 | | | 644 | (2) |
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| The Press and the Military: May 1945 | | | 646 | (10) |
| Attack on Carrier Bunker Hill | | |
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| Kamikaze Raid Off Okinawa: May 1945 | | | 656 | (7) |
| Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member | | |
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| ''A Giant Pillar of Purple Fire'': Nagasaki, August 9, 1945 | | | 663 | (10) |
| Japan Signs, Second World War Is Ended | | |
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| The Japanese Surrender: September 2, 1945 | | | 673 | (2) |
| A Month After the Atom Bomb: Hiroshima Still Can't Believe It | | |
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| A Walk in Hiroshima: September 3, 1945 | | | 675 | (6) |
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| The Bombing of Hiroshima and Its Aftermath: August 6, 1945-August 1946 | | | 681 | (78) |
| Chronology, 1933-1945 | | 759 | (36) |
| Maps | | 795 | (17) |
| Biographical Notes | | 812 | (16) |
| Note on the Texts | | 828 | (4) |
| Acknowledgments | | 832 | (3) |
| Notes | | 835 | (19) |
| Glossary of Military Terms | | 854 | (9) |
| Index | | 863 | |
