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| Dark Clouds Form Over Europe | |
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| Past Is Prologue | |
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| Those Who Repeat the Past | |
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| A Different Kind of Boom | |
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| Black Hats, White Hats, and Stalin | |
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| The Front Lines | |
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| War Is Hell | |
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| Dante's Soldiers | |
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| The Allies' Skeletons | |
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| True Freedom Fighters | |
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| From Abyssinia to Zyklon | |
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| The War That Didn't End All Wars | |
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| The Fuse Is Lit | |
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| Winners and Losers | |
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| No Garden Party at Versailles | |
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| Needed: An International Police Officer | |
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| A World Government for an Ungovernable World | |
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| A League of Their Own | |
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| A Hindenburg Without the Hot Air | |
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| A Law Against War | |
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| Brothers, Can You Spare a Billion? | |
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| Depressing Depression | |
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| People Don't Kill, Guns Do | |
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| A Wolf at the Door | |
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| The Little Artist Seeks a Bigger Canvas | |
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| Picture Imperfect | |
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| A Nazi Is Born | |
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| A Room with a Viewpoint | |
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| From Democrat to Dictator | |
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| The Terror Begins | |
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| Hitler Goes for the Gold | |
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| Follow the "Leader" | |
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| Might Makes Reich | |
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| The Bell Tolls for War | |
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| Oiling the War Machine | |
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| Lies and Allies | |
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| Drawing a Line at the Rhine | |
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| Americans Are Stuck in Neutral | |
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| Making Fascism Fashionable | |
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| Tanks Versus Spears | |
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| The Red Sun Also Rises | |
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| What Hemingway Missed | |
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| Peace in Whose Time? | |
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| The Anschluss Was No Sound of Music | |
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| "I Have No More Territorial Demands" | |
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| The Night of the Broken Glass | |
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| Czech Mate | |
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| Poles Apart | |
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| Entangling Alliances | |
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| Totalitarians Unite! | |
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| It Must Be War | |
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| Blitzkrieg | |
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| Goose-Stepping Across Europe | |
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| The Nazis Roll Over the Poles | |
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| Britain Mounts a Confetti Campaign | |
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| A Merciless Victor | |
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| War Without Rules | |
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| Spy Versus Spy | |
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| Interested Spectators | |
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| The Winter of Stalin's Discontent | |
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| The Not So Phony War | |
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| The U-Boats | |
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| The Allies Start to Fight | |
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| Hitler Takes the Low Road | |
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| "Conquer We Must" | |
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| The French Are Fried | |
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| Miracle at Dunkirk | |
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| Those Left Behind | |
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| The Arc de Defeat | |
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| Puttin' on the Brits | |
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| America Takes a First Step | |
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| Wolves at Sea | |
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| Still Some Fight in the French | |
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| The Last Neutrals | |
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| The Battle of Britain | |
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| The Blitz | |
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| Hitler Declares Victory | |
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| An Arsenal for Democracy | |
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| America Inches Closer to the Spreading War | |
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| The Giant Awakens | |
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| War Is as Easy as ABC | |
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| Arms on the Installment Plan | |
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| Hitler Won't Take "No" for an Answer | |
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| Mussolini's Greek Misadventure | |
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| Stalin Protects His Back | |
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| Mercury Conquers Crete | |
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| The Atlantic Is Not the Pacific | |
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| Italy's Brief Empire | |
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| Enter the Desert Fox | |
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| Adolf Turns on Joe | |
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| Shifting Alliances | |
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| Mindless Bolsheviks | |
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| Stalin Tries to Buy Time | |
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| Moving on East | |
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| The War Is Won | |
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| Japan Threatens the West | |
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| The Atlantic Charter | |
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| The Sixth Man | |
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| Russians Dream of a White Christmas | |
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| So Close, Yet So Far | |
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| The Yanks Are Coming! | |
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| The Day of Infamy Arrives | |
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| Grabbing Supplies to Meet Demand | |
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| No Surprise from Japan | |
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| Empire Versus Empire | |
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| Black Sunday | |
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| Maybe Yamamoto Wasn't So Smart | |
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| Island Paradises No More | |
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| Germany Jumps In | |
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| War in the Pacific | |
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| America's U-Boats | |
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| Britain's Humiliation | |
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| I Shall Return! | |
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| The Bataan Death March | |
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| Doolittle's Raiders | |
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| Corralled in the Coral Sea | |
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| Midway Tips the Balance | |
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| America Takes Offense | |
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| We're Coming for You, Adolf | |
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| Huns First, Japs Later | |
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| Slaves of the Reich | |
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| No Let-Up in the Atlantic | |
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| Bombs Away | |
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| The White Rose | |
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| Russia's Cold Winter | |
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| Rommel's Wild Ride | |
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| Torching the Germans | |
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| America at War | |
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| The War Machine Revs Up | |
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| Women Go to Work | |
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| Hollywood Commandos | |
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| The Actors Fight for Real | |
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| Celebrities Find a New Spotlight | |
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| Athletes Play on a Different Field | |
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| War Is Good Politics | |
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| All the News That's Censored to Fit | |
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| America Interns Its Own | |
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| The Great Patriotic War | |
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| WACs, WASPs, and WAVES | |
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| Segregation in the Army | |
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| The Tuskegee Airmen | |
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| Japanese-American GIs | |
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| Allies Kick Axis | |
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| The Axis Goes in Reverse | |
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| Envisioning Victory | |
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| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | |
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| Better to Give Than Receive | |
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| They Sank My Boat | |
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| The Blood-Soaked Island of Tarawa | |
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| War Hits Home in Germany | |
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| Making Hamburger of Hamburg | |
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| Knocking Out Peenemunde's Rockets | |
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| Taking the War to Hitler | |
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| The Torch Is Passed | |
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| Fallout from the Fox's Fall | |
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| The Man Who Never Was | |
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| Sicily Is Rubbed Out | |
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| Benito Is Finito | |
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| Ike Takes Command | |
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| No Roman Holiday, Yet | |
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| Operation Shingle | |
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| Battle Royale at Cassino | |
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| The Eastern Front Falls Back | |
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| Hitler's Friends Urge Peace | |
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| The Red Army Rolls | |
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| Hitler's Blame Game | |
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| Foreshadowing a New Empire | |
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| Still Plenty of Fight in the Germans | |
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| Molotov's Diplomatic Cocktail | |
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| Here We Snow Again | |
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| The Big Three Finally Meet | |
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| Fend for Yourselves, Guys | |
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| Stalin's D Day | |
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| Pacific Island-Hopping | |
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| China Breaks Free | |
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| Reopening the Burma Road | |
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| Merrill's Marauders | |
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| Small Islands, High Human Cost | |
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| A Turkey Shoot | |
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| Planning For Japan | |
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| MacArthur's Return | |
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| Kamikazes | |
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| The Battle of Bull's Run | |
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| Fighting the Japanese and the Elements | |
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| Japan Doesn't Know the War Is Over | |
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| Let Freedom Ring | |
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| Invasion! | |
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| Hitler's Secret Weapons | |
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| The Atlantic Wall | |
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| Patton's Phantom Army | |
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| Why Normandy? | |
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| The Battle of Berlin | |
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| Massing the Troops | |
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| D Day | |
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| We'll Start the War from Right Here | |
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| No Day at the Beach | |
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| While Hitler Slept | |
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| On to Paris! | |
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| Germany Gives Britain the Old V-1, 2 | |
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| The Return of de Gaulle | |
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| For You the War Is Over | |
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| It Wasn't Hogan's Heroes | |
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| "H" Is for Hebrew | |
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| The Soldiers of Berga | |
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| The Horrors of Buchenwald | |
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| Murder at Mauthausen | |
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| Massacre at Malmedy | |
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| The Great Escape | |
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| Special Treatment | |
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| Prisoners in the Pacific | |
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| German POWs in the United States | |
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| The Ones Left Behind | |
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| Hitler Cheats Death | |
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| The Mark of Caen | |
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| The Assassins' Plot Explodes | |
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| The Allies Take Offense | |
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| The Liberation of Paris | |
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| The Offensive Runs Out of Gas | |
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| No Picnics at Market-Garden | |
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| The Politics of War | |
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| The Battle of the Bulge | |
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| Hungry for Hungary | |
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| Victory in Europe | |
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| No Happy New Year for Germany | |
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| Yalta Sets the Agenda | |
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| Dresden Goes Up in Flames | |
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| Hitler's Last Stand | |
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| FDR's Death Stuns the World | |
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| The Siege of Berlin | |
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| Bunker Pill | |
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| Il Duce's Reward | |
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| Germany Surrenders | |
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| Dividing the Spoils at Potsdam | |
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| The Red Sun Sets | |
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| Unfinished Business in the Philippines | |
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| Uncommon Valor | |
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| The Last Battle | |
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| Firestorm! | |
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| Olympic and Coronet | |
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| The Power of a Particle | |
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| The Manhattan Project | |
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| Keeping the Weapon Secret | |
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| The Gadget Becomes a Reality | |
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| The Final Countdown | |
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| Ground Zero | |
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| Japan Surrenders | |
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| The Smoke Clears, and the Reckoning Begins | |
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| Night and Fog | |
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| The Nuremberg Laws | |
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| Nowhere to Run | |
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| The Nazi Euthanasia Program | |
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| The Final Solution | |
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| Building Walls Around the Jews | |
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| The Model Ghetto | |
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| The Einsatzgruppen | |
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| The Camps | |
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| Medical Experiments | |
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| Gypsies, Gays, and Jehovah's Witnesses | |
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| Anne Frank | |
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| Americans Also Died in Camps | |
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| What's Different About the Jews? | |
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| Liberators, Rescuers, and Avengers | |
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| Liberation | |
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| Flying Around Auschwitz | |
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| The Danish Rescue | |
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| Righteous Persons | |
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| We Closed Our Eyes | |
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| Remembrance | |
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| "I Was Just Following Orders" | |
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| The Japanese Face the Music | |
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| "Justice" for the Victims of Berga | |
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| Still Hunting Nazis | |
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| Freedom's Heavy Price | |
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| Casualties of War | |
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| The People Behind the Statistics | |
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| Economies in Shambles | |
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| The Marshall Plan | |
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| Emerging from the Rubble | |
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| People Without a Country | |
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| Tools of War | |
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| A New Cold War Begins | |
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| The Nuclear Arms Race | |
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| The Disunited Nations | |
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| Telling the Story of World War II | |
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| Will World Wars End at Two? | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Roll Call | |
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| Victims of the Holocaust | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Marching in Time: A Chronology of World War II | |
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| Index | |