Since the end of the Cold War, historians have finally been coming to grips with the scale of World War II. We no longer see it as a European war and a Pacific one but as a single Eurasian conflict. The savage fighting on the Eastern Front that claimed over 30 million lives is at the center of the narrative. The “rape of Nanking” now stands alongside the attack on Pearl Harbor in the narrative of the Asian war. More than ever, we are aware of the connections between theaters and fronts. As Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian nationalist leader, put it in October 1940, “the coils of war increasingly strangle the world. . . ....