Recently the Times Literary Supplement of June 13, 2025 took notice of Milner's new history, Second Front, published by Yale University Press. The reviewer, British military historian Gary Sheffield, salutes the distinguished Canadian historian who has been "putting Canada's scandalously underplayed role in the Normandy story front and centre."
Milner's title for this new book is clever and ironic, for his subject is the battles between the United States and Britain over control of the conduct of the war and particularly over who would claim postwar credit for having won it. As Sheffield tells it, the Brits were eager to subsume Canadian contributions into their own claim to remain a world power, while the Americans' mighty PR machine liked to imply the British were barely contributing at all.
Who would have thought Normandy would remain a battlefield in 2025? Historians, of course.
