| Foreword | p. vii |
| The Rise of Adolf Hitler | |
| Birth of the Third Reich | p. 17 |
| Birth of the Nazi Party | p. 52 |
| Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch | p. 83 |
| The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich | p. 120 |
| Triumph and Consolidation | |
| The Road to Power: 1925-31 | p. 167 |
| The Last Days of the Republic: 1931-33 | p. 211 |
| The Nazification of Germany: 1933-34 | p. 263 |
| Life in the Third Reich: 1933-37 | p. 320 |
| The Road to War | |
| The First Steps: 1934-37 | p. 385 |
| Strange, Fateful Interlude: The Fall of Blomberg, Fritsch, Neurath and Schacht | p. 423 |
| Anschluss: The Rape of Austria | p. 440 |
| The Road to Munich | p. 485 |
| Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist | p. 578 |
| The Turn of Poland | p. 612 |
| The Nazi-Soviet Pact | p. 685 |
| The Last Days of Peace | p. 726 |
| The Launching of World War II | p. 791 |
| War: Early Victories and the Turning Point | |
| The Fall of Poland | p. 827 |
| Sitzkrieg in the West | p. 838 |
| The Conquest of Denmark and Norway | p. 889 |
| Victory in the West | p. 939 |
| Operation Sea Lion: The Thwarted Invasion of Britain | p. 996 |
| Barbarossa: The Turn of Russia | p. 1040 |
| A Turn of the Tide | p. 1117 |
| The Turn of the United States | p. 1140 |
| The Great Turning Point: 1942--Stalingrad and El Alamein | p. 1180 |
| Beginning of the end | |
| The New Order | p. 1223 |
| The Fall of Mussolini | p. 1293 |
| The Allied Invasion of Western Europe and the Attempt to Kill Hitler | p. 1316 |
| The Fall of the Third Reich | |
| The Conquest of Germany | p. 1409 |
| Goetterdaemmerung: The Last Days of the Third Reich | p. 1437 |
| A Brief Epilogue | p. 1480 |
| Notes | p. 1487 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 1527 |
| Bibliography | p. 1533 |
| Index | p. 1549 |