Stalin's wars: from World War to Cold War, 1939-1953

Stalin at war

Unholy alliance: Stalin's pact with Hitler

Grand illusions: Stalin and 22 June 1941

War of annihilation: Stalin versus Hitler

Victory at Stalingrad and Kursk: Stalin and his generals

The politics of war: Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt

Triumph and tragedy: Stalin's year of victories

Liberation, conquest, revolution: Stalin's aims in Germany and Eastern Europe

Last battles: Stalin, Truman and the end of the Second World War

The lost peace: Stalin and the origins of the Cold War

Generalissimo at home: the domestic context of Stalin's postwar foreign policy

Cold War confrontations: Stalin embattled

Stalin in the court of history.