First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Part 1 The armoured Blitzkriegs: the fall of France 1940 - Blitzkrieg in the west; the battle of Gazala 1942 - Rommel's masterpiece; Bagration 1944 - the Soviet sledgehammer. Part 2 The amphibious landings: Anzio 1944 - the stranded whale; D-Day 1944 - the longest day; Iwo Jima 1945 - hell in the Pacific. Part 3 The slogging matches: Barbarossa 1941 - to the gates of Moscow; second Alamein 1942 - hitting them for six; Kursk 1943 - cauldron of armour. Part 4 The airpower factor: the Battle of Britain 1940 - spitfire summer; the Schweinfurt raid 1942 - America's worst day; Monte Cassino 1944 - victory through airpower?. Part 5 The war at sea: sink the Bismark! 1941 - battle in the Atlantic; Pearl Harbour 1941 - strike from the sea; Operation Pedastal 1942 - the Malta convoy. Part 6 The airborne assaults: Crete 1941 - the Pyrrhic victory; Operation Market-Garden 1944 - the bridge at Arnhem; Operation Thursday 1944 - Wingate and the Chindits. Part 7 The city battles: Stalingrad 1942 - the city of the sword; Manilla 1945 - MacArthur's return; Berlin 1945 - the final battle.