The war in the east -- D-Day -- Operation Cobra -- The commanders -- Exploiting the U.S. First Army breakout from Normandy -- Operation Dragoon: the liberation of the south of France -- Liberation of Paris -- Battle of the Hurtgen Forest -- Operation Market-Garden -- The liberation of Italy -- Battle of the Bulge -- Capture of the Remagen bridge -- Rhine river crossings -- Patton's Third Army drive through Germany to Czechoslovakia -- Liberation of concentration camps: the Holocaust -- The drive to Berlin -- The link-up of American and Soviet forces at Torgau, Germany -- V-E Day -- Epilogue: war crimes trials at Nuremburg and the Marshall Plan.