Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Victor Davis Hanson -- Preface -- 1. Paths to Victory (or Defeat) -- 2. From Versailles to the Vistula -- 3. Rising Tide, Early Reverses -- 4. At the Flood -- 5. Turning Points -- 6. The Brink of Catastrophe -- 7. Last Chances -- 8. Cataclysm -- 9. Why the Axis Lost -- 10. How World War II Still Guides Strategic Design -- Chapter Notes -- Works Cited -- Index