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

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 ascend to global hegemony once Hitler's armies fell.



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