Re: who really started ww2 in the pacific?

On 12/12/2009 10:23 AM, Stuart McGraw wrote:
I don't think Churchill or anyone subsequent...

Some after-the-fact Googling reveals that there is some
dispute over whether the source of the "history is written
by the victors" quote was Churchill. Obviously that affects
nothing else I wrote.

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