In 1943, Great Britain and the United States struggled to agree on strategy to liberate Europe. They chose Operation Overlord, a thrust across Europe into the Nazi citadel that began with the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944. This was not an easy decision, quite probably requiring a quid pro quo: Churchill’s acceptance of the D-Day-based strategy in exchange for Roosevelt reopening to the British of the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb.

Advocating Overlord: The D-Day Strategy and the Atomic Bomb is a fresh look at how in 1943 two separate and difficult, but concurrent negotiations, strategy and atomic cooperation, moved into ever closer proximity. Only a very few at the top, who had the “need to know” and responsibility for both initiatives, controlled the action. Based on eight years of research in four countries, Advocating Overlord is the first book-length examination of this fateful convergence that still affects us today.

Beneath the nationalist arguing and wary bargaining at the top, a tight-knit, Anglo-American team in London, COSSAC, created a plan for D-Day found viable by those who would execute it. COSSAC's plan tipped the balance in the strategy decision. Click on ABOUT THE BOOK, to read more about this tense, many-faceted story.

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