Volume 1. The lead-up to war. Letter from President Roosevelt to Chancellor Adolf Hitler ; F.D.R: There will be no blackout of peace in America ; President Roosevelt's speech recommending revision of the neutrality law ; We must not falter now ; Compulsory service must be adopted ; The country is being rushed into military conscription ; Proclamation 2425: selective service registration ; Our own democracy is threatened ; We ought to stay out of the war ; Lend-Lease Act ; Charles Lindbergh: Radio address ; Joint resolution of the US Congress reaffirming the principles of the Monroe Doctrine

Pearl Harbor. Memorandum for the President, December 7, 1941 ; Fourteen-part message from Japan to the United States and Secretary Hull's response ; The man in the street reacts to Pearl Harbor ; Franklin Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor speech

Domestic aliens. The Japanese American creed ; Excerpts of the Munson report ; Presidential Proclamation 2526: Alien-enemies-Germans ; Presidential Proclamation 2527: Alien-enemies-Italians ; Let us not persecute these people ; Executive Order 9066

Wartime relocation and internment of civilians ; To all persons of Japanese ancestry ; An interview with an older Nisei

Other demographics. Executive Order 8802

Fair employment practice in defense industries ; Those who deserve freedom will fight for it ; The colored people are still waiting, still watchful ; Letter recommending Navajo enlistment ; The American workers' responsibility ; Women's part in the war effort ; Don't make slaves of future generations ; President Roosevelt's "call for sacrifice" ; We love honor more than we fear death ; Let us have action for women instead of lip-service ; An act to repeal the Chinese exclusion acts

Foreign policy. Atlantic charter ; Joint message of assistance to the Soviet Union from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill ; German declaration of war with the United States ; Our heritage can be preserved only by fighting ; Declaration by the United Nations ; We need tanks, not talk ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt's broadcast to Canadians ; More dollars do not mean more goods

Master lend-lease agreement ; Mutual aid agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union ; The war and human freedom ; Casablanca conference

Volume 2. War and victory. Digest of Operation Overlord ; What shall we do with Germany? ; Armistice with Italy ; Moscow declaration regarding the postwar period ; Cairo declaration ; The spirit of liberty ; General Dwight D. Eisenhower's order of the day ; The invasion starts ; The public's responsibility towards veterans ; Radio address by General Douglas MacArthur at the Leyte beachhead ; Protocol of proceedings of Crimea (Yalta) conference ; Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority by Allied powers

The holocaust. Letter regarding the plight of German Jews ; Notices to the US State Department regarding Nazi plans to eliminate Jews ; Cable from London to Rabbi Stephen Wise regarding the final solution ; The American Jewish leaders' meeting with President Roosevelt ; Report on the failure of the US State Department to assist European Jews ; Memo on army policy regarding refugee rescue ; January 1943 telegram confirming reports of mass executions of Jews in Poland ; Rosenheim letter requesting bombing of deportation rail lines ; War Department cable refusing to bomb deportation railways

Nuremberg. Report to the president by Mr. Justice Jackson ; Rehabilitation and moral reconstruction for Germany ; International conference on military trials

agreement and charter ; Statement by Justice Jackson on war trial agreement

The atom bomb. Albert Einstein's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt ; A petition to the president regarding the atomic bomb ; President Truman's announcement of the Hiroshima bombing ; Supreme commander for the Allied powers' general order no. 1 ; Declaration on the atomic bomb ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the nature of an atomic explosion ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the selection of the target ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: main conclusions.