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Visions of Victory
Visions of Victory explores the views of eight leaders of the major bel-ligerents in World War II – Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek,Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt – and compares their visionsof the future assuming their side emerged victorious. While the leaders pri-marily focused their attention on strategies for fighting and winning thewar, these strategies were often shaped by their aspirations and hopes forthe future. Weinberg assesses how subsequent events were impacted bytheir decisions and examines how their visions for the future changed andevolved throughout the war. What emerges is a startling picture of post-war worlds: Besides the extermination of the Jews, Hitler intended for allthe Slavs to die off and for the Germans to inhabit all of eastern Europe.Both Mussolini and Hitler intended to have extensive colonies in Africa.Churchill hoped to see the reemergence of the British and French Empires.De Gaulle wanted to annex the northwest corner of Italy (but Trumanforced him to back down). Stalin wanted control of eastern Europe, andhe got it. Roosevelt’s vision of the future was the closest to being fulfilled,including, importantly, the establishment of the United Nations. Aston-ishing in its synthesis and scope, Weinberg’s comparison of the individualportraits of the wartime leaders is a highly original and compelling studyof history that might have been.
Gerhard L. Weinberg is Professor Emeritus of History at the Universityof North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of numerous books andarticles on the origins and course of World War II, including A World atArms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge, 1994), which wonthe George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, andGermany, Hitler, and World War II (Cambridge, 1995).
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International boundaries to September 1, 1939Curzon Line, with A B Extensions into Eastern GaliciaDemarcation line established by the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, August 23, 1939 (Molotov-Ribbentrop Line)
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