Johan Andersson of Paradox has announced that a demo of Hearts of Iron III will be available before the game's release. The demo will published on media sites such as FilePlanet on Tuesday, August 4th at 9:00 AM PST. In the meantime, they have made the manual (.pdf) available so that you can bone up prior to installing the demo.

Hearts of Iron III is due out this Friday. The demo features the 1939 scenario for 4 months, until January 1940, as either Germany, Poland, France or United Kingdom, with full access to all gameplay features. The demo will also contain the tutorial.