Advance Britannia (Hardback)
How the Second World War Was Won, 1942-1945
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A major - and global - history of how the Second World War was won, by the author of Britain at Bay
By 1942, Churchill faced a vastly different war than the one he'd inherited from Neville Chamberlain. Britain was no longer alone; the Soviets were now an unlikely ally in the East, and Pearl Harbor had finally pushed America into action. Yet the scale of violence remained unchanged. On average, seven British men, women and children were killed every hour of the Second World War. The country would never be the same again.
In Advance Britannia, historian Alan Allport reveals the war as it was lived - from the battlefields to the ration books, in the War Ministry and in the air raid shelters. Mixing social history with dramatic storytelling, this is a definitive account of the war that reshaped the world.
Advance Britannia (Ebook)
How the Second World War Was Won, 1942-1945
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A major - and global - history of how the Second World War was won, by the author of Britain at Bay
By 1942, Churchill faced a vastly different war than the one he'd inherited from Neville Chamberlain. Britain was no longer alone; the Soviets were now an unlikely ally in the East, and Pearl Harbor had finally pushed America into action. Yet the scale of violence remained unchanged. On average, seven British men, women and children were killed every hour of the Second World War. The country would never be the same again.
In Advance Britannia, historian Alan Allport reveals the war as it was lived - from the battlefields to the ration books, in the War Ministry and in the air raid shelters. Mixing social history with dramatic storytelling, this is a definitive account of the war that reshaped the world.
Advance Britannia (Audiobook)
How the Second World War Was Won, 1942-1945
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A major - and global - history of how the Second World War was won, by the author of Britain at Bay
By 1942, Churchill faced a vastly different war than the one he'd inherited from Neville Chamberlain. Britain was no longer alone; the Soviets were now an unlikely ally in the East, and Pearl Harbor had finally pushed America into action. Yet the scale of violence remained unchanged. On average, seven British men, women and children were killed every hour of the Second World War. The country would never be the same again.
In Advance Britannia, historian Alan Allport reveals the war as it was lived – from the battlefields to the ration books, in the War Ministry and in the air raid shelters. Mixing social history with dramatic storytelling, this is a definitive account of the war that reshaped the world.
Reviews for Advance Britannia
Phillips O'Brien, author The Strategists
Anne Sebba, author The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
Lucy Noakes, Professor of Modern History, University of Essex
Richard Vinen, author The Long '68
Julie V Gottlieb, author Guilty Women
David Edgerton
Dominic Sandbrook
Max Hastings Sunday Times
Andrew Roberts
Alan Allport
Alan Allport is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Syracuse University. He is the author of three previous volumes of history, Browned Off and Bloody-Minded, Demobbed – winner of the 2010 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award – and Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941.