A new book argues that the conflict was a battle for empire. April 4, 2022 / Daniel Immerwahr / The Atlantic - What was the Second World War about? According to Allied leaders, that wasn’t a hard question. “This is a fight between a free world and a slave world,” U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace explained. It is “between Nazidom and democracy,” Winston Churchill said, with “tyranny” on one side ...