Over the previous five years of war, the fate of the planet had largely rested in the hands of six men gathered into two opposing camps: Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin on the Allied side; Hitler, Mussolini and Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo for the Axis. This had remained true right up until April 1945. By the end of that month, however, three of those six—Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler—were dead. Now, a fourth, Churchill, had been cast from power, and in just a few more weeks, Hideki Tojo would be as well. In short, of the six men who controlled the world’s destiny in spring 1945, by
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