Foreword to the New English Edition 7
Foreword: Objectives and Methodology 11
Chapter 1 Introduction: America and the Myth of the "Great Crusade" 19
Chapter 2 The American Power Elite and Fascism 29
Chapter 3 America and the Red Peril 42
Chapter 4 The War in Europe and America's Economic Interests 53
Chapter 5 Fall 1941: The Tide of War Turns in Front of Moscow 63
Chapter 6 The United States at War with Japan and Germany 75
Chapter 7 Class Warfare on the American Home Front 86
Chapter 8 A Second Front for Stalin, or a Third Front in the Air? 95
Chapter 9 Stalin's Soviet Union: An Unloved but Useful Partner 107
Chapter 10 The Liberation of Italy: A Fateful Precedent 116
Chapter 11 The Long Summer of 1944 123
Chapter 12 The Successes or the Red Army and the Yalta Agreements 132
Chapter 13 Dresden: A Signal for Uncle Joe 142
Chapter 14 From Roosevelt's "Soft Line" to Truman's "Hard Line" toward Stalin 169
Chapter 15 An Anti-Soviet Crusade? 176
Chapter 16 The Winding Road to the German Surrender(s) 187
Chapter 17 America Between Confidence and Concern 193
Chapter 18 Nuclear Diplomacy and the Onset of the Cold War 201
Chapter 19 A Useful New Enemy 213
Chapter 20 Corporate Collaboration and the So-called "De-Nazification" of Germany (1) 221
Chapter 21 Corporate Collaboration and the So-called "De-Nazification" of Germany (2) 237
Chapter 22 The United States, the Soviets, and the Post-war Fate of Germany 248
Chapter 23 After 1945: From the Good War to Permanent War 267
Endnotes 281
Acknowledgements 301
Select Bibliography 303
Index 317