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Ep 248: Marc Milner on the Allies During WWII

Published 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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 Understanding of Imperial Politics

01:00:18 Revisionist Views of WWII

01:06:00 Communist and Fascist Extremism