| MISSION TO BERLIN | |
| Talks at Wilhelmstrasse | |
| 7 | The Special Train |
| 10 | The Purpose of the Pact |
| 19 | Incident at Eydtkuhnen |
| 20 | The Bellevue Hotel |
| 22 | In the Reichskanzlei |
| 23 | A Meeting with Hitler |
| 29 | The Talks Continue |
| 36 | In Ribbentrop’s Bunker |
| 38 | The Nazis’ Secret Objectives |
| 42 | Twists of Fate |
| Berlin on the Eve of the War | |
| 50 | New Year’s Eve in the Grunewald |
| 52 | Diplomatic Receptions |
| 59 | Daily Life at the Embassy |
| 62 | A Box in the Admiralspalast |
| 65 | Alarming Signals |
| 68 | The Hess Affair |
| 73 | The Night of June 21 |
| The Return Home | |
| 81 | In the Hands of the Enemy |
| 86 | An Argument at the Wilhelmstrasse |
| 88 | An SS Guard Helps the Bolsheviks |
| 93 | A Window to Freedom |
| 96 | Toast to Victory |
| 100 | The Anti-Fascist Underground |
| 103 | In the House on the Unter den Linden |
| 106 | In Occupied Europe |
| 109 | Baron Bothmer Puts Out Feelers |
| 112 | Waiting at Svilengrad |
| 114 | In Neutral Turkey |
| 115 | The Return to Moscow |
| THE BIRTH OF THE COALITION | |
| The Beginning | |
| 118 | New Objectives |
| 123 | The Anglo-Soviet Agreement |
| 126 | The Visit of Harry Hopkins |
| 130 | The Needs of the Front and the Prospects for the War |
| 134 | An Evening at the Metropol |
| The First Trial | |
| 137 | The Beaverbrook-Harriman Mission |
| 142 | Agreement on Deliveries |
| 144 | A Meeting with Stalin |
| 150 | Important Decisions |
| 153 | The People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs Moves to Kuibyshev |
| The USA Enters the War | |
| 156 | Pearl Harbour |
| 160 | The Führer’s Speech |
| 162 | Anthony Eden in Moscow |
| 167 | All the Way to Berlin! |
| 168 | 1942 |
| The Main Partners | |
| 172 | Some Aspects of Soviet-American Relations |
| 178 | Anglo-American Shipments |
| 185 | The Problem of the Second Front |
| 192 | Winston Churchill in Moscow |
| 196 | The Balkan Variant |
| 198 | The Joint Communique |
| 201 | Months of Concern |
| The Moscow Conference | |
| 204 | A Changed Situation |
| 208 | The House in Spiridonovka Street |
| 212 | The Four-Nation Declaration |
| 214 | In Stalin’s Office |
| 216 | The Meeting with Hull |
| 220 | Some Results of the Conference |
| 227 | Dinner in the Kremlin |
| 235 | The Road to Victory and Peace |
| THE TEHERAN CONFERENCE | |
| Journey to the Iranian Capital | |
| 238 | The Meeting of “the Three” |
| 241 | From Moscow to Baku |
| 243 | International Airline Passengers |
| 244 | Warning from the Rovno Forests |
| 251 | Inside the Soviet Embassy |
| 252 | Stalin Meets Roosevelt A Dialogue of Two Leaders |
| 259 | At the Round Table |
| 265 | Operation Overlord |
| Conflict Between the Allies | |
| 272 | Churchill’s Balkan Adventure |
| 274 | The King’s Sword Presented to Stalingrad |
| 277 | The Atmosphere Worsens |
| A Nazi Spy in the British Embassy | |
| 282 | The Teheran Decisions and “Cicero” |
| 286 | A Birthday Cake |
| Plans for the Post-War Peaceful Settlement | |
| 289 | The Argument over War Criminals |
| 292 | The Anglo-American Plan for the Partitioning of Germany |
| 298 | Post-War Settlement |
| 300 | “The Big Three” Leave Teheran |
| How the Teheran Decisions Were Carried Out | |
| 304 | On the Threshold of 1944 |
| 305 | Back in Moscow |
| 307 | A Visit with Averell Harriman |
| 311 | The Appointment of Eisenhower |
| 315 | The Question of the Italian Fleet |
| 321 | A Fundamental Change |
| 324 | Henry Wallace in Tashkent |
| 327 | The “Parade” of War Prisoners |
| 331 | Two Conceptions of the UN Charter |
| 335 | The Controversy over Veto Rights |
| THE ROAD TO POTSDAM | |
| Complications in Relations Among the Allies | |
| 340 | Military Planning |
| 343 | Scepticism in London |
| 345 | Special Ties Between the USA and Britain |
| 349 | Crossing the Border |
| 353 | A Sharp Exchange in the Kremlin |
| On the Threshold of Victory | |
| 356 | The Warsaw Uprising |
| 365 | The Americans Analyse the Situation |
| 369 | Talks Between Two Leaders |
| 378 | The Results of the Visit |
| 382 | Preparations for a New “Big Three” Meeting |
| 392 | The Yalta Conference For and Against |
| 396 | Preliminary Sessions |
| 399 | The British Inheritance |
| 403 | Understanding About Poland’s Borders |
| 407 | Far-Eastern Affairs |
| 411 | An Example of Equitable Relations |
| 413 | Between Yalta and Potsdam The Berne Incident |
| 426 | Confrontation in the White House |
| 436 | Harry Hopkins’s Mission |
| 443 | Final Preparations |
| 448 | “The Big Three” in Berlin |
| The Potsdam Conference | |
| 451 | Stalin’s Meeting with Truman |
| 453 | The Particulars of the Situation |
| 461 | The First Day |
| 465 | The Dilemma over the Atomic Bomb |
| 470 | Social Events During the Conference |
| 476 | Truman’s Unsuccessful Attack |
| 484 | Continuation of the Discussion |
| 487 | Goings-on Aboard the Cruiser Augusta |
| The Lessons of the Coalition | |
| 490 | Experience in Cooperation Between Two Systems |
| 492 | Prospects for Peaceful Coexistence |
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