Second Front: Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of the Normandy Campaign

by Marc Milner

A revelatory new account of the Second World War--and how bitter competition between the Allies would shape the postwar world

In June 1944, an Allied army of British, American, and Canadian troops sought to open up a Second Front in Normandy. But they were not only fighting to bring the Second World War to an end. After decades of Anglo-American struggle for dominance, they were also contending with one another--to determine who would...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030027887X
• ISBN13: 9780300278873
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 688 Pages