| Introduction | 1 |
| Pt. 1 | Darkness Falls over Europe | |
| Post Office Shoot-Out Launches a War | 5 |
| Wiping Out Hitler's Spy Network | 7 |
| The Gestapo Cracks an Espionage Ring | 9 |
| Masquerading Germans Pace the Invasion | 10 |
| A Streetcar Spearheads an Attack | 13 |
| Hitler Order: Kidnap Queen Wilhelmina | 14 |
| A Legal Diamond Thief | 15 |
| Rommel Personally Captures a Unit | 16 |
| A General's "Impossible" Escape | 17 |
| "The Cat" Was a Triple Agent | 20 |
| Prowling behind German-Held Coast | 22 |
| Cat-and-Mouse Game | 24 |
| A Personal Telegram for the Fuhrer | 27 |
| Who Was the Mysterious Max? | 28 |
| Underwater War at Gibraltar | 29 |
| Polish Spies Invade Germany | 33 |
| A Leg is Parachuted to a British Ace | 36 |
| Sudden Death for the "Blond Beast" | 38 |
| Parachuting in a Boat | 41 |
| Pt. 2 | Freedom's Time of Crisis | |
| A Ruse to Spy on Cherbourg | 45 |
| "Hunting" Germans in Canoes | 46 |
| Jewish Raiders in Disguise | 47 |
| A Conspiracy to Capture Cairo | 51 |
| Intruders at a Secret Airport | 52 |
| A Special Medal for Burma Tribesmen | 56 |
| American Medics Save Ho Chi Minh | 59 |
| A Hoax at Soviet Oil Fields | 60 |
| A Woman Heads an Escape Apparatus | 62 |
| The Ranger Wore Bedroom Slippers | 66 |
| The Countess and the Commandos | 66 |
| "Blow Up Rommel's Railroad!" | 71 |
| Reconnoitering Hostile Beaches | 76 |
| A Master of Disguises | 78 |
| Deceiving an Italian General | 79 |
| The Canal Saboteurs | 80 |
| Strange Places for Secret Radios | 81 |
| Saved from a Firing Squad | 82 |
| Pt. 3 | Hitler's Empire under Siege | |
| Old Popski Invades a German Headquarters | 87 |
| The GI with the Too-Short Pants | 90 |
| The New York Subway Connection | 94 |
| Nose-Thumbing at the Germans | 96 |
| The Chef Had Bombs on His Menu | 97 |
| Spying from a Church Steeple | 98 |
| The Black-Hearted Devils | 99 |
| A Scheme to Go under German Lines | 103 |
| A New Baby Stymies Normandy Planning | 103 |
| Sabotage Campaign by Railway Men | 105 |
| A Close Encounter with Two Jungle Beasts | 106 |
| "Baby Sergeant York" | 109 |
| A Millionairess Resistance Leader | 109 |
| A Woman OSS Agent and "Cuthbert" | 111 |
| Panzer Watchers and Phony Laundries | 112 |
| The Supersecret X Troop | 114 |
| Miracle at a Normandy Convent | 115 |
| A Luftwaffe Pilot Declines to Take Bait | 115 |
| Jealousy Thwarts a German Scheme | 116 |
| A British POW Saves His Captor's Life | 117 |
| Pt. 4 | Beginning of the End | |
| "Hell, We're Halfway to Berlin!" | 121 |
| Alone in a German-Held Town | 123 |
| Two Admirals Go Souvenir Hunting | 125 |
| An American General's Strange Odyssey | 128 |
| Mission: Kidnap Field Marshal Rommel | 131 |
| A Soviet Spying Mission Fizzles | 133 |
| A "Dead" GI Returns | 134 |
| Operation Sauerkraut | 137 |
| A POW Haul in a Saloon | 139 |
| "The Madman of St. Malo" | 140 |
| The "Terrorist" Was a Lady | 142 |
| Jeds behind the French Riviera | 143 |
| The Mysterious Lady in Red | 146 |
| An Escape by Eight "Policemen" | 149 |
| An Endangered Pilot Is Saved | 152 |
| Shooting Up an "Iron Kraut" | 155 |
| Hiding a "Pregnant" Glider Pilot | 156 |
| The "Lone Raider" on the Prowl | 158 |
| A Secret Mission in the Alps | 162 |
| Pt. 5 | Peace at Last | |
| "League of Lonely War Women" | 167 |
| Curious Doings in a POW Camp | 167 |
| POWs Parachute into the Reich | 169 |
| The Good Samaritan of Leyte Gulf | 171 |
| "Scarface Otto" Creates Mass Hysteria | 172 |
| A POW Colonel Takes Command | 176 |
| An Allied Spy's Dilemma | 179 |
| Marooned amid the Foe | 180 |
| Trapped in an Attic for Eight Days | 183 |
| Love and War at a German Post Office | 187 |
| MacArthur "Visits" a Japanese CP | 188 |
| A Patrol's "Pigeon Air Force" | 190 |
| A German Boy-Soldier Saves Two GIs | 194 |
| A Scheme to Trigger an Uprising | 197 |
| Uninvited "Guests" on Corregidor | 198 |
| Eavesdropping behind Japanese Positions | 200 |
| Eisenhower's Spy in Berlin | 201 |
| Father Sam and His Hidden Radio | 204 |
| Intelligence Coup on a Train | 206 |
| Nazi Frogmen on the Rhine | 208 |
| VIP Hostages Saved by Fate | 210 |
| A Stroll through 145,000 Germans | 211 |
| Mobilizing Twenty-Eight Million Civilian Killers | 214 |
| Notes and Sources | 219 |
| Index | 231 |