The American Spectator
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To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945.
John C. McManus’ book is the final volume of his trilogy on the U.S. Army’s role in the Pacific theater of the Second World War.
After Japan surrendered, the fighting in China shifted from the war against Japan to a civil war between the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists.
The legacy of the Pacific War described in McManus’ history is still with us today in China’s challenge to the U.S.-led world order.
In that sense, the “dominant American cultural narrative of World War II, heavily influenced by the triumphal residue of the Europe First strategy that struck down the horrendous evils of Nazism, [is] an interpretation that, in retrospect, seems very wrongheaded, perhaps even precisely backward”.
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