Subjects include: Allied mass bombing strategy; the Allied alliance with the Soviet Union; the battle in Libya and Egypt; plans for a second front; the position of France; the campaign in Italy; the war in the Pacific; Churchill's speeches; the Allied landings in Normandy and the progress of the campaign in Western Europe; the Russian advance towards Berlin; the Yalta Conference; Germany's surrender; the Labour Party's victory in the British General Election; the use of the atomic bomb and the surrender of Japan; the leadership of Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa; the Nuremberg war crimes trials; the dangerous behaviour of the Soviet Union.