The German invasion of Poland, September 1939
Poland defeated, October 1939
Finland defiant, November 1939
The Scandinavian cockpit, winter 1939-1940
The German attack in the West, May 1940
The battle for France, June 1940
France's agony, Britain's resolve, June-July 1940
The battle for Britain, August-September 1940
'The war is won!' (Hitler), October 1940
The 'new order of tyranny' (Roosevelt), winter 1940-1941
The widening war, January-March 1941
The German conquest of Yugoslavia and Greece, April 1941
The fall of Crete; war in Africa, April-May 1941
The German invasion of Russia, June 1941
Terror in the East, July-August 1941
Towards Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev, September 1941
Russia at bay, September-October 1941
'Deciding the fate of Europe' (Hitler), November 1941
The limits of German conquest, December 1941
Japan strikes, December 1941
'We are no longer alone' (Churchill), New Year 1942
Global war, February-April 1942
The spread of resistance and terror, summer 1942
Guadalcanal, Dieppe, El Alamein, August-September 1942
Stalingrad and 'Torch', September-October 1942
The turn of the tide for the Allies, winter 1942
Casablanca: blueprint for victory, January 1943
The German armies in danger, February 1943
'Drive the enemy into the sea' (Montgomery), spring 1943
'The first crack in the Axis' (Roosevelt), summer 1943
Germany and Japan in retreat, autumn 1943
'Bleeding to death in the East' (Goebbels), winter 1943
Anzio, Cassino, Kwajalein, January-February 1944
Bombing, deportation, and mass murder, February-March 1944
Resistance, sabotage, and deception, spring 1944
Germany encircled, July 1944
The battles for Poland and France, summer 1944
The bitter-sweet path of liberation, autumn 1944
Into Germany; towards the Philippines, September 1944
Fighting for every mile, October-November 1944
Flying bombs, suicide pilots, death marches, January 1945
Berlin, Manila, Dresden, Tokyo, February-March 1945
The Axis in disarray; the Allies in conflict, March-April 1945
The deaths of Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler, April 1945
The end of the war in Europe, May 1945
Germany in defeat, Japan unbowed, May-July 1945
Alamogordo, Potsdam, Hiroshima, July-August 1945
The defeat of Japan, August 1945
Retribution and Remembrance, 1945-1952
'Unfinished business', 1953-1989.
