From the Editor

Radek Sikorski and Mark Almond describe elsewhere the different ways V-E Day was commemorated in different European countries. From the media coverage, however, the U.S. interest seemed modest—in comparison not only to the European festivities but also to last year’s U.S. commemoration of D-Day.

One can speculate why. For continental West Europeans, V-E Day ended the the Second World War by either liberating them or defeating them. For Americans, Japan still loomed ahead.