![]() Now it is the destiny of America-for all its faults and weaknesses, the greatest free society in history-to lead the world against a new grim outbreak of evil, a savage stab at the core of freedom on earth, a dark, shocking start to a new millennium. In the very long run, that will so far has prevailed. The evil in human hearts knows no boundary, except the deeper, stronger human will to freedom, order, and justice. That eternal benchmark of barbarism, let us remember, was set not by a Third World country, not by Orientals, not by the Muslims, but by the Germans, an advanced European nation. ![]() ![]() In the last global war, before VE day and VJ day came, there befell the collapse of France, the Bataan death march, the fall of Singapore, the siege of Stalingrad, bloody Tarawa, and bloodier Guadalcanal and at the hidden heart of that global war, concealed by the smoke of battle, there burned the Holocaust. ![]() The two books tell one overarching story-how the American people rose to the challenges of World War II, the first global war, after fearsome setbacks forgotten today in the shining memory of final victory.Īs I write these words late in October 2001, a new war is just beginning, global again in scope but totally different in character. Little, Brown and Company, the publisher of The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, has requested a special author's introduction to this new edition of the novels in a changed format. ![]()
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