Ep 248: Marc Milner on D-Day and the US-UK Battle for Hegemony
Marc Milner, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick and author of Second Front: Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of the Normandy Campaign, joins the show to discuss the turbulent passing of the torch of Western hegemony during WWII.
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02:50 1917
10:52 American Battle Monuments Commission
14:31 FDR and the British Empire
21:36 American views on the Nazis
30:40 FDR at the Tehran Conference
35:42 Plans Before the Invasion of France
40:48 The British Empire and National Strategy
50:25 Churchill and the Russians in 1944
56:00 A Sophisticated…
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