Setting the stage. Background : Wilhelmine Berlin and the rush to war ; Before Berlin (1879-1914) ; In Berlin : war and its aftermath (1914-1922) ; First visit to America (1921) ; A dinner at the Einsteins'
Journey to the Far East (1922). Getting away ; Sea voyage to the East ; Colombo and Singapore ; Hong Kong and Shanghai ; Kobe, Kyoto, and Tokyo ; Sendai, Nikko, and Nagoya ; Kyoto and Osaka ; Farewell to Japan : Miyajima, Fukuoka, and Moji
Homeward bound : Palestine and Spain (1923). Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Colombo, revisited ; Palestine ; On the road again ; Spain
South America (1925). Back at home ; At sea again ; Argentina ; Uruguay ; Brazil ; Back in Berlin ; Dinner with Count Kessler
New York and Pasadena (1930-1931). Berlin, 1925-1930 ; Voyage to America ; Four days in New York ; At sea again : Havana and Panama ; Pasadena
Berlin and Oxford (1931). At home in Berlin ; Oxford : college life ; Musical Oxford ; Back to reality
Return to Pasadena (1931-1932). Across the Atlantic ; Panama and Honduras ; Pasadena encore
Oxford, Pasadena, and last days in Europe (1932-1933). Second sojourn in Oxford ; At sea again ; Pasadena once more ; Back to Europe ; Last days in Europe
Epilogue (1933-1935). Settled in Princeton ; Physics, the Bomb, and politics ; Endgame.