As the rising powers of Germany and Japan sought to emulate established colonial titans, the world was consumed by war.

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All of the main actors in World War II were, as Paul Thomas Chamberlin notes in “Scorched Earth,” empires of one sort or another. “For centuries,” the author writes, “the ability to ...