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The Battle of Antietam

When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance (Neilberg, WH) hancock when his former student Alby Michael S. Neilberg Winner of the Society for Military Historys Distinguished Book Award Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy governmenta fateful decision that nearly destroyed the AngloAmerican alliance. According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the most shocking single event of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of France in spring 1940. Michael