272 - Second Front: Anglo-American Rivalry

<p>When we talk about the Second Front, most of us think of the Allied invasion of Northwest Europe—D-Day, June 1944. But in his new book, <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/030027887X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=%201472848985&linkCode=as2&tag=thehistoryn0a-20&linkId=d6f99998ab1dab5a39f91ed597aa4b53"> <em>Second Front: Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of the Normandy Campaign</em></a>, historian Professor Marc Milner offers a different perspective.</p> <p>What if the real second front wasn't in Normandy, but in Washington?</p> <p>Milner argues that while Britain fought alongside the United States on the battlefields of Europe, it was also engaged in a very different kind of struggle across the Atlantic: a political and diplomatic battle to retain its influence over an increasingly dominant America.</p> <p>By the time Allied troops landed in France, the United States had not only become the senior partner in the alliance but had begun re...