ABSTRACT
More than any other war previously fought, World War II pitted men against machines. Warriors have always sought some claw or club to drub an enemy, maximizing damage to the other and minimizing damage to themselves. The strategies and grandiose designs of Hitler, Hirohito, and Mussolini were countered and checked by the Allied leaders Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Roosevelt. While Adolf Hitler saluted himself and sent his soldiers to the slaughter house with no more regard for their lives than an amateur chess player has for his pawns, Churchill and Roosevelt lamented the crumpled youth of America and the British Commonwealth. During the 1930s, Churchill demanded that England arm itself for a war that Hitler would surely make. Agreeing to a set of idealistic principles under which their democracies would fight, the Atlantic Charter, all Churchill needed was for the rest of America to see as clearly as Roosevelt.
