“Gifts from Heaven”: The Meaning of the American Victory over Japan, 1945

By John David Lewis

Author’s note: This is the third of three articles for The Objective Standard dealing with the role of ideas in military history. The first two dealt with General William T. Sherman’s march through the South in the American Civil War and the British appeasement of Hitler in the late 1930s. The material in these articles will appear in my forthcoming boo…