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.