Part 1: Setting the stage. A world in turmoil, 1939-1941 ; Genesis of the warlords: Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt, 1874-1941
Part 2: Shaping the war. The road to "Arcadia": Placentia Bay and the Atlantic Charter ; The "Arcadia" Conference and the Pacific dimension, December 22, 1941, to January 14, 1942 ; Arcadian aftermath: Europe or North Africa? ; In the bear's lair: the first Moscow Conference, August 1942 ; End of the beginning: North Africa and the Eastern Front, 1942 ; Global strategy and unconditional surrender: the Casablanca Conference, January 14-24, 1943 ; Sicily, Italy, and the Second Front: the "Trident" Conference, May 12-25, 1943 ; Italy, the Pacific, and Operation "Overlord": the "Quadrant" Conference, August 14-24, 1943 ; Toward the power of three: Moscow and Cairo, October to November 1943 ; The power of three: the Tehran Conference, November 1943
Part 3: Shaping the peace. The fruits of their labors, December 1943 to July 1944 ; Idealism and realism: the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, August 21 to October 9, 1944 ; Strategy, economics and "Tube alloys": the "Octagon" Conference, September 12-16, 1944, and the Hyde Park Meeting, September 19, 1944 ; The bear and the bulldog: the "Tolstoy" Conference, October 9-19, 1944 ; Matters of war and peace: the "Argonaut" Conferences, January 20 to February 11, 1945 ; Götterdämmerung: the final defeat of Germany, March to May 1945 ; Anatomy of a war summit: the "Terminal" Conference, July 17 to August 2, 1945 ; Quo vadis? War summits and the postwar world.