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A Two-Front War
Throughout the course of history there has been no conflict as cataclysmic and defining as that of World War II. In his book, The Good Fight, How WWII Was Won, author Stephen E. Ambrose called it "the greatest catastrophe in history" (4). This war was truly deserving of its "world" title. There was fighting on six out of the seven continents. Four of the major oceans had naval battles. In The United States and World War II, Vol. I, the editor notes that "it involved almost every great nation on the globe, and most of the smaller ones as well…it was fought in every quarter of the globe…and the war was almost total in its destructive character as well" (xiv). Multiple nations supplied thousands of troops with many of them escalating into the millions. Every nation was touched in some way by the events of this "world war". There have been an exhaustive number of theories on how the war could have gone different ways, but a consensus view is that the "Allies" were......

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