ROBERT FRANKLIN MADDOX is Professor of History at Marshall University./e He is the author of two books, The Senatorial Career of Harley Martin Kilgore and America and World War I: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources with David Woodward. The author of numerous articles and reviews he is a past president of the West Virginia Historical Association.

• Author’s Note -- The War to End All Wars (1914–1921) -- The Illusion of Stability (1921–1930) -- The Collapse of Order (1931–1935) -- Descent into Chaos (1936–1939) -- The Dark Days (1940–1941) -- Japan Strikes (1939–1941) -- Japan at Bay (1942) -- War in North Africa (1940–1944) -- Attacking the Underbelly (1943–1945) -- Occupied Areas -- Americans at War -- The Eastern Front (1942–1944) -- Launching the Second Front (1944) -- Closing the Vise (1945) -- Across the Pacific (1943–1944) -- Japan Subdued (1945) -- Wartime Diplomacy -- Epilogue