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| Series Preface | |
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| Editor's Note | |
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| Beginnings Pearl Harbor | |
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| Photo Essay "Pearl Harbor Photographs" | |
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| "December 7,1941": Studs Terkel interviews American witnesses to the Japanese attacks | |
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| "December 8,1941": Interviews with Japanese civilians and soldiers | |
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| "Austin, Texas, December 9,1941": Man-on-the-street interview following the attack on Pearl Harbor | |
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| The War in Europe | |
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| "War": Historian Eric Hobsbawm reflects on the coming of the war | |
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| "Flight": Elisabeth Freund, a German Jewish emigre, recounts her flight from Nazi Germany | |
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| "A Turning Point": Studs Terkel interviews Mikhail Nikolaevich Alexeyev, Russian author and editor, about his experiences as a Soviet soldier on the Eastern Front | |
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| "The Bombers and the Bombed": Studs Terkel interviews Eddie Costello and Ursula Bender about the Allied bombing of Frankfurt, Germany | |
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| "Return to Auschwitz": Author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi is interviewed as he returns to Auschwitz after forty years | |
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| The US. Home Front | |
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| "Trouble Coming": Nelson Peery describes the profound racial tensions that erupted in Southern states as African American soldiers mobilized in large numbers | |
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| "A Sunday Evening": Studs Terkel interviews Peter Ota, an American-born Japanese man who served in the American military | |
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| Photo Essay "Manzanar": Ansel Adams photographs an internment camp for Japanese Americans | |
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| "Statement on Entering Prison": David Dellinger issues a political statement on his status as a conscientious objector in 1943 | |
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| "Rosie": Studs Terkel interviews a woman who went to work in a factory during the war | |
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| Photo Essay "Rosie the Riveter": From the Office of War Information archive | |
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| "Confronting the Holocaust": Historian David Wyman interviews Hillel Kook, who led the effort in the U.S. to push American leaders to rescue European Jews | |
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| Image Essay "Dr. Seuss Goes to War": Propaganda cartoons from Theodore Geisel on the Nazi menace | |
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| The Pacific War | |
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| "The Slaughter of an Army": Osawa Masatsugu relates his experiences as a Japanese soldier in New Guinea in 1943 | |
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| "Tales of the Pacific": Studs Terkel interviews E.B. (Sledgehammer) Sledge about the American experience of war in the Pacific | |
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| "An American Revolutionary": Nelson Peery relates his experiences as an African American soldier in the fight against Japan | |
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| "One World or None": An excerpt from public statements by leading atomic scientists, warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons | |
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| "The Atomic Bomb": Studs Terkel talks with a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project | |
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| "A Terrible New Weapon": Firsthand witnesses of Ground Zero at Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
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| Postwar | |
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| "The War (Rough Draft)": An account of Paris after the German occupation, by Marguerite Duras | |
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| "Refugees": Poet Charles Simic remembers a life in transit in the aftermath of the German surrender | |
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| Sources | |