“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

Matthew Kaminski is editor-at-large, writing regularly for POLITICO Magazine on American and global ... that leaves them technically in a state of war. China disputes Japan’s claim over the ...

This story appears in the June 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Seventy-nine years ago, the most far-flung, destructive, and lethal war in history approached its end. World War II lived ...