Addresses head-on the central issue of invasion timing in the Allied European strategy of World War II
 
Second Front Now—1943 addresses head-on the central issue of invasion timing in the Allied European strategy of World War II. The author reconstructs and compares the actual military situations of the several combatants in a detailed and ambitious manner. Drawing on a vast and growing body of American, British, and German memoirs and secondary sources, as well as on newly available archival materials in Washington and London, the author constructs a persuasive case for the feasibility of invasion in 1943.
 

Walter Scott Dunn Jr. is also the author of Hitler’s Nemesis: The Red Army, 1930–1945 and The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930–1945.
 

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“Dunn cogently argues that the Allies were capable of launching and sustaining a cross-Channel attack in 1943, but that it was delayed for political reasons. . . . Dunn thoroughly criticizes the Mediterranean strategy as a waste of resources, compares Allied and Nazi units and equipment, and discusses the landing-craft controversy. An important study.”
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“The author does present a credible challenge to the widely and possibly erroneously held assumption that an invasion of France in 1943 would have failed. What distinguishes Second Front Now from previous examinations . . . is Dunn’s analysis of Allied and German resources. A significant and provocative work that will be essential reading.”
—History: Review of New Books
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“Dunn believes that German-occupied France was open to invasion in 1943 if only the Western Allies has the vision, discipline, and audacity to take the gamble. Dunn is particularly effective in comparing potential Allied strength against the weak German defenses in France. . . . [A] provocative and interesting book [that] forces us to rethink the way the war was fought and to assess the effectiveness of the great war leaders.”
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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