"Jesus Christ and General Jackson" -- "The most terrible responsibility any man ever faced" -- May days -- "Our troubles might not yet be over" -- "A vast undertaking": coming to Potsdam -- "What a scene of destruction" -- "In seventeen days you can decide anything" -- "I dreamed that my life was over" -- "Dismemberment as a permanent fate"? Solving the problem of Germany -- "The bastard of Versailles" -- Dr. Groves's son and the fate of East Asia -- Conclusion.