The Second World War

• Series preface

• Introduction

• German military incompetence through Italian eyes

• The background to the Syrian campaign, May-June 1941: a study in Franco-German wartime relations

• Churchill and the American alliance

• Australia, the British Empire and the Second World War

• The politics of strategy

• Great Britain, Australia and the war against Japan,1939-1945

• The 'Singapore strategy' and the deterrence of Japan

• Winston Churchill, the Admiralty and the dispatch of Force Z

• War, foreign policy and public opinion

• Britain and the Darlan affair, November-December 1942

• Great Britain: the indirect strategy

• The Alanbrooke diaries

• Censorship, propaganda and public opinion: the case of the Katyn graves, 1943

• The British TUC between Germany and Russia: from the outbreak of war to the World Trade Union conference of February 1945

• Ernest King and the British Pacific fleet: the conference at Quebec, 1944

• 'All for each and each for all': reflections on Anglo-American and Commonwealth scientific cooperation, 1940-1945

• Anglo-American policy on German reparations from Yalta to Potsdam

• The campaign to sell a harsh peace for Germany to the American public, 1944-1948

• The Moscow declaration, the Kharkov trial and the question of a policy on major war criminals of the Second World War

• 'The trial that never was': why there was no second international trial of major war criminals at Nuremberg

• Problems of neutrality

• Swiss diplomatic documents, 1939-45

• The Vatican and the war in the Far East, 1941-43

• Name index