Victory

A facsimile of the surrender documents that ended the Second World War.

Reduced facsimile of the surrender documentation for V-E and V-J Days. Includes Japanese language versions of the documents signed onboard the U.S.S. Missouri.

For an enormous global catastrophe, the resulting surrender agreement are surprisingly short. The purpose of such a publication is elegantly described in the foreword;

“The Nazi and Japanese revolutions against the morals of modern civilization came to an end in the spring and summer of 1945. They came so close to succeeding, however, that the testimony of their failure, the surrender documents signed at Reims and in Tokyo Bay, and shown in facsimile in this booklet, will remain forever among the most significant records of our times.”