| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Day One: Hitler Invades Poland: September 1, 1939 | 1 |
| The Fall of Norway: April 9, 1940 | 7 |
| The Battle of Britain: December 29, 1940 | 14 |
| Coming to America: A Jewish Refugee: March 25, 1941 | 21 |
| The Attack on Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941 | 28 |
| The Draft Gets Rolling: February 1942 | 34 |
| The Bataan Death March: April 1942 | 39 |
| Jimmy Doolittle's Raid: April 18, 1942 | 45 |
| The Battle of Corregidor: May 7, 1942 | 52 |
| The Battle of Midway: June 3, 1942 | 59 |
| The Japanese Internment Camps: Summer 1942 | 66 |
| The Higgins Shipyard: Fall 1942 | 73 |
| The Battle of Guadalcanal: November 14, 1942 | 81 |
| A Child's Revenge: November 1942 | 87 |
| The Battle of Stalingrad: November 19, 1942 | 93 |
| A Flying Ace in the Solomon Islands: January 31, 1943 | 100 |
| The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: April 19, 1943 | 109 |
| The Invasion of Sicily: July 10, 1943 | 113 |
| The Invasion of Italy: September 9, 1943 | 117 |
| Thanksgiving in Tunisia: November 25, 1943 | 121 |
| A Tuskegee Airman: December 8, 1943 | 128 |
| Welcome to the USO: December 19, 1943 | 135 |
| Diary of an Army Nurse in Italy: March 2, 1944 | 139 |
| D Day: June 6, 1944 | 147 |
| Patton's Third Army: August 1, 1944 | 155 |
| A Fighter Pilot at Guam and Saipan: Summer 1944 | 160 |
| The Liberation of Paris: August 26, 1944 | 167 |
| Trucking with the Red Ball Express: Fall 1944 | 172 |
| In Hiding: Fall 1944 | 179 |
| The Battle of Leyte Gulf: October 23, 1944 | 183 |
| Joining the WACs: October 1944 | 188 |
| Working Underground in Hungary: October 1944 | 194 |
| The Battle of the Bulge: December 16, 1944 | 202 |
| Two Brothers in Luxembourg: January 2, 1945 | 207 |
| The Segregated Army: Winter 1944-1945 | 212 |
| The Battle of Iwo Jima: February 19, 1945 | 219 |
| Bombs over Tokyo: March 10, 1945 | 226 |
| Crossing the Rhine: March 24, 1945 | 232 |
| The Battle of Okinawa: April 2, 1945 | 237 |
| Entering Buchenwald: April 12, 1945 | 242 |
| The Liberation of Dachau: April 29, 1945 | 245 |
| V-E Day: May 8, 1945 | 252 |
| Playing at Potsdam: July 16, 1945 | 256 |
| The Sinking of the Indianapolis: July 30, 1945 | 261 |
| Hiroshima: August 6, 1945 | 269 |
| Japan Surrenders: August 14, 1945 | 274 |
| V.-J. Day: September 2, 1945 | 278 |
| Back to School: September 1945 | 282 |
| Prisoner of War: October 15, 1945 | 288 |
| The Occupation of Japan: October 1945 | 294 |
| Leaving a Marker: November 11, 1945 | 299 |
| The Nuremberg Trials: November 1945 | 303 |
| I'll Be Home for Christmas: December 25, 1945 | 310 |
| Bibliography | 317 |
| Index | 321 |
Format: Hardcover, 332 pages
