Volume 2 by Maurice Matloff.

Includes bibliographical references.

[Volume 1], 1941-1942. The war plans -- German victories and American plans: May 1940-January 1941 -- British-American plans: January-November 1941 -- The showdown with Japan: August-December 1941 -- The first full dress debate over strategic deployment: December 1941-January 1942 -- Army deployment and the War against Japan: December 1941-March 1942 -- Army deployment in the Pacific and Grand Strategy: January-March 1942 -- The principle of concentration in the British Isles -- Prior claims versus Bolero: April 1942 -- Decisions in favor of a "second front": May 1942 -- Future plans and current operations: June 1942 -- The elimination of the alternatives: July-August 1942 -- The interpretation of CCS 94: August 1942 -- Counting the costs of Torch: August-November 1942 -- British and American plans and Soviet expectations -- Strategic inventory: December 1942 -- After Torch -- World War, 1939-1945.

[Volume 2], 1943-1944. Introduction: The basis of strategy -- Casablanca: beginning of an era: January 1943 -- Advance in the Mediterranean: January-May 1943 -- The search for a formula -- Mounting pressure in the Pacific and Far East: January-May 1943 -- The new look in strategic planning -- The Trident Conference: new pattens, May 1943 -- From Husky to Avalanche, May-Mid-August, 1943 -- Crossraods in the European War -- Current plans and future operations in the War against Japan: June-August 1943 -- Quadrant: shaping the patterns: August 1943 -- "The Mediterranean Again": August-November 1943 -- Strategy and command in the War against Germany -- British-American plans and Soviet expectations: August-November 1943 -- Strategic strands in the War against Japan: August-November 1943 -- Final rehearsals en route to Cairo -- Cairo-Tehran: a goal is reached: November-December 1943 -- Strategic inventory 1943 -- Concentration for the big blow: January-May 1944 -- The second front and the secondary war; the CBI: January-May 1944 -- The second front and the secondary war: the Pacific: January-May 1944 -- The promise of military victory: D-Day to September 1944 -- Political shadows -- Octagon: end of an era -- Epilogue -- Appendixes.