Blood and ruins: the Last Imperial War, 1931-1945

Prologue : 'blood and ruins' - the age of Imperial War

Nation-empires and global crisis, 1931-40

Imperial fantasies, imperial realities, 1940-43

The death of the nation-empire, 1942-45

Mobilizing a total war

Fighting the war

War economies : economies at war

Just wars? Unjust wars?

Civilian wars

The emotional geography of war

Crimes and atrocities

Empires into nations : a different global age.