纪念世界反法西斯战争胜利60周年———《第二次世界大战史》再版序言

The sixtieth Anniversary of the Victory of the Anti-fascist War in the World ——Preface to the Second (or the Third) Edition of The Second World War

第二次世界大战是一场伟大的反法西斯战争。中国抗日战场作为世界上开辟最早、抵抗时间最长的反法西斯战场,对这场战争的胜利作出了巨大的不可磨灭的贡献。中国作为抗击法西斯的四大国之一,在重建战后的世界和平中发挥了积极作用。作为20世纪最重大的历史事件之一,第二次世界大战不仅改变了中国,也改变了世界。它为中国共产党领导下的民族解放事业奠定了坚实的基础,也促进了战后世界的和平与发展。中国将为推动世界的和平、繁荣与发展而不懈努力。

The Second World War was a great, just and anti-fascist war. Chinese anti-Japanese battleground, as the earliest and longest one in the world, made tremendous and everlasting contributions to the victory of the Second World War. China, as one of the four anti-fascist great powers, played an important and positive role reestablishing peace in the postwar era. As one of the great historical events in the 20~ th century, the Second World War changed China, and the whole world as well. It laid the solid foundation for the cause of national liberation led by the Communist Party of China, and promoted the peace and development in the postwar era. China has to make unremitting efforts to step up global peace, prosperity and development.