CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

CHAPTER 1       Just a Little Precedent
EXCURSION 1     The Alliance System
CHAPTER 2       A Long Way from Home
EXCURSION 2     The Steel Sleet and the Continuous Front
CHAPTER 3       The Great Crusade
EXCURSION 3     Breaking the Stalemate
CHAPTER 4       A Country Divided
EXCURSION 4     Would a German Victory Have Been Worse?
CHAPTER 5       The Fireproof House
EXCURSION 5     The Myth of Appeasement
CHAPTER 6       The “No-Ground-Troops” War, 1939–41
EXCURSION 6     Blitzkrieg
CHAPTER 7       The Real War, 1942–451
EXCURSION 8     What If We Had Not Fought Hitler?
CHAPTER 8       A Dreadful Mistake
EXCURSION 8     Why War Is Hard to Stop
CHAPTER 9       Alliances and Peacekeeping
EXCURSION 9     The Theory and Practice of Nuclear Deterrence
CHAPTER 10     The Space Between
EXCURSION 10   All Passion Spent
CHAPTER 11     Going with the Flow

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