Artists in China: between war and civil war
Artists in France: between collaboration and resistance
Artists in Germany: constructing the "thousand-year Reich"
Artists in Great Britain: creating art as propaganda during the "Blitz"
Artists in Italy: shaping a fascist culture of consensus
Artists in Japan: relating tradition and modernity to the art of "holy war"
Artists in the Soviet Union: defending communist utopia
Artists in Spain: waging a media war
Artists in the United States: selling war and peace in the "American century"
Conclusion: remembering World War II.