Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF MAPS AND CHART vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
5. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN FOOTNOTES xi
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. PART ONE: THE FIRST WORLD WAR
8. 1. Cabinet, Tsar, Kaiser: Three Approaches to Assessment 11
9. 2. Austria-Hungary 37
10. 3. Imperial Germany 62
11. 4. The Russian Empire 98
12. 5. France and the German Menace 127
13. 6. French Estimates of Germany's Operational War Plans 150
14. 7. Great Britain before 1914 172
15. 8. Italy before 1915: The Quandary of the Vulnerable 205
16. PART TWO: THE SECOND WORLD WAR, WESTERN EUROPE
17. 9. British Intelligence and the Coming of the Second World War in Europe 237
18. 10. French Military Intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1938- 1939 271
19. 11. National Socialist Germany: The Politics of Information 310
20. 12. Fascist Italy Assesses Its Enemies, 1935-1940 347
21. PART THREE: THE SECOND WORLD WAR, EASTERN EUROPE AND BEYOND
22. 13. Threat Identification and Strategic Appraisal by the Soviet Union, 1930-1941 375
23. 14. Japanese Intelligence before the Second World War: "Best Case" Analysis 424
24. 15. Great Britain's Assessment of Japan before the Outbreak of the Pacific War 456
25. 16. United States Views of Germany and Japan in 1941 476
26. Conclusions: Capabilities and Proclivities 503
27. CONTRIBUTORS 543
28. INDEX 547