The settings: FDR, American public opinion, and Nazi Germany before Pearl Harbor -- American's phony war: December 1941 to November 1942 -- Planning Germany's defeat: December 1941 to November 1943 -- The politics of unconditional surrender: November 1942 to June 1944 -- Hardening thoughts, unchanging rhetoric: March 1943 to June 1944 -- Planning Germany's future: June 1944 to April 1945 -- Conclusion and aftermath: April 1945-December 1947
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-293) and index