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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| William L. Shirer: "It's All Over" - The Munich Conference: September 1938 | |
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| Vincent Sheean: Aufenthalt in Rosenheim - Anti-Semitism and the Germans: 1938 | |
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| Otto D. Tolischus: Last Warsaw Fort Yields to Germans - The Fall of Poland: September 28, 1939 | |
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| A. J. Liebling: Paris Postscript - Paris Before the Fall: May 1940 | |
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| Virginia Cowles: The Beginning of the End - Flight from Paris: June 1940 | |
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| William L. Shirer: "Revengeful, Triumphant Hate" - French Humiliation at Compiegne: June 21, 1940 | |
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| Edward R. Murrow: Can They Take It? - The London Blitz: September 1940 | |
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| Ernie Pyle: "This Dreadful Masterpiece" - London on Fire: The Raid of December 29, 1940 | |
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| Robert St. John: Under Fire - German Invasion of Greece: April 1941 | |
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| Otto D. Tolischus: The Way of Subjects - Formulating Japanese Imperial Ideology: August 1941 | |
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| Howard K. Smith: Valhalla in Transition - Berlin After the Invasion of Russia: Autumn 1941 | |
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| Robert Hagy: "The Worst News That I Have Encountered in the Last 20 Years" - America First Rally in Pittsburgh: December 7, 1941 | |
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| New York Herald Tribune: President's War Message - America Declares War: December 8, 1941 | |
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| Melville Jacoby: War Hits Manila - Japan Attacks the Philippines: December 8-28, 1941 | |
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| Cecil Brown: "Prepare to Abandon Ship" - The Sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales: December 10, 1941 | |
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| Larry Lesueur: "Tanks and Cannons Standing Starkly in the Snow" - Devastation on the Moscow Front: December 1941 | |
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| Annalee Jacoby: Bataan Nurses - Nurses Under Fire in the Philippines: April 1942 | |
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| Jack Belden: Flight Through the Jungle - Stilwell's Retreat Through Burma: May 1942 | |
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| Helen Lawrenson: "Damn the Torpedoes!" - The Merchant Marine and the Battle of the Atlantic: 1942 | |
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| Foster Hailey: The Battle of Midway - Carrier War in the Pacific: June 4, 1942 | |
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| Ted Nakashima: Concentration Camp: U.S. Style - The Internment of Japanese-Americans: 1942 | |
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| The New York Times: "A Vast Slaughterhouse" - Reports of Genocide in Eastern Europe: June 1942 | |
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| E. B. White: Bond Rally - Dorothy Lamour in Bangor, Maine: September 1942 | |
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| Richard Tregaskis: Battle of the Ridge - Guadalcanal: September 7-24, 1942 | |
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| Roi Ottley: Negroes Are Saying - African-Americans and the War: Discrimination and Protest, 1942 | |
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| Mary Heaton Vorse: The Girls of Elkton, Maryland - Munitions Workers: 1943 | |
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| A. J. Liebling: The Foamy Fields - Air War in Tunisia: January 1943 | |
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| Ernie Pyle: The War in Tunisia - February-May 1943 | |
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| Beirne Lay, Jr.: I Saw Regensburg Destroyed - B-17 Raid on Germany: August 17, 1943 | |
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| John Steinbeck: Fear of Death as Green Troops Sail to Invasion - Troop Ship to Salerno: September 1943 | |
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| Richard Tregaskis: "Then I Got It" - American Correspondent Wounded in Italy: November 1943 | |
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| Robert Sherrod: from Tarawa: The Story of a Battle - The Marines at Tarawa: November 1943 | |
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| Edward R. Murrow: "The Target Was To Be the Big City" - Bombing Raid Over Berlin: December 2, 1943 | |
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| Homer Bigart: San Pietro a Village of the Dead; Victory Cost Americans Dearly - Battle of San Pietro: Italy, December 1943 | |
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| Margaret Bourke-White: Over the Lines - Spotting Artillery from a Piper Cub: Italy, 1943 | |
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| Ernie Pyle: "This One Is Captain Waskow" - The Death of an Infantry Officer: Italy, January 1944 | |
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| Vincent Tubbs: "Wide Awake on an Island Beachhead" - The Southwest Pacific: February-March 1944 | |
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| Walter Bernstein: Search for a Battle - Italy: March 1944 | |
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| The Editors of Fortune (drawings by Mine Okubo): Issei, Nisei, Kibei - Japanese-American Internment: 1944 | |
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| Susan B. Anthony II: Working at the Navy Yard - Women in War Plants: 1944 | |
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| Ernie Pyle: Omaha Beach After D-Day - June 1944 | |
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| Ernie Pyle: Battle and Breakout in Normandy - July-August 1944 | |
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| Lee Miller: The Siege of St. Malo - "The War Wasn't Over in This Section": St. Malo, August 1944 | |
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| Helen Kirkpatrick: Daily News Writer Sees Man Slain at Her Side in Hail of Lead - The Liberation of Paris: August 26, 1944 | |
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| Bill Mauldin: from Up Front - "My Business Is Drawing": A Cartoonist in Combat, 1943-44 | |
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| Rupert Trimmingham and others: Democracy? - African-Americans and the War: Correspondence from Yank, 1944 | |
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| Brendan Gill: Young Man Behind Plexiglass - Profile of an American Bombardier: August 1944 | |
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| Tom Lea: Peleliu Landing - "War Is Fighting and Fighting Is Killing": Peleliu, September 1944 | |
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| William Walton: Now the Germans Are the Refugees - The Fall of Aachen: October 1944 | |
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| John H. Crider: U.S. Board Bares Atrocity Details Told by Witnesses at Polish Camps - Eyewitness Report of Auschwitz: November 1944 | |
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| Mack Morriss: War in the Huertgen Forest - "A Solid Mass of Dark, Impenetrable Green": The Huertgen Forest, November 1944 | |
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| Martha Gellhorn: The Battle of the Bulge - The Road to Bastogne: December 1944 | |
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| Robert Sherrod: The First Three Days - Landing on Iwo Jima: February 1945 | |
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| Howard Brodie: Jump-Off - Assault Across the Roer: February 1945 | |
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| James Agee: "These Terrible Records of War" - Newsreels of Iwo Jima: March 1945 | |
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| Janet Flanner (Genet): Letter from Cologne - "A Model of Destruction": Cologne, March 1945 | |
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| Martha Gellhorn: Das Deutsches Volk - "We Were Never Nazis": Germans in Defeat, April 1945 | |
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| James Agee: "A Soldier Died Today" - The Death of F.D.R.: April 12, 1945 | |
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| Edward R. Murrow: "For Most of It I Have No Words" - Buchenwald: April 15, 1945 | |
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| Evan Wylie: Ernie Pyle - The Death of Ernie Pyle: Ie Shima, April 18, 1945 | |
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| Virginia Irwin: "A Giant Whirlpool of Destruction" - The Russians in Berlin: April 1945 | |
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| Edward Kennedy: The War in Europe Is Ended! - The German Surrender: May 7, 1945 | |
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| A. J. Liebling: The A.P. Surrender - The Press and the Military: May 1945 | |
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| Phelps Adams: Attack on Carrier Bunker Hill - Kamikaze Raid Off Okinawa: May 1945 | |
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| William L. Laurence: Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Told by Flight Member - "A Giant Pillar of Purple Fire": Nagasaki, August 9, 1945 | |
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| Homer Bigart: Japan Signs, Second World War Is Ended - The Japanese Surrender: September 2, 1945 | |
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| Homer Bigart: A Month After the Atom Bomb: Hiroshima Still Can't Believe It - A Walk in Hiroshima: September 3, 1945 | |
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| John Hersey: Hiroshima - The Bombing of Hiroshima and Its Aftermath: August 6, 1945-August 1946 | |
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| Chronology, 1933-1945 | |
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| Maps | |
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| Biographical Notes | |
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| Note on the Texts | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary of Military Terms | |
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| Index | |