Britain at Bay
The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941
From statesmen and military commanders to ordinary Britons, a bold, sweeping history of Britain's entrance into World War II—and its efforts to survive it—illuminating the ways in which the war permanently transformed a nation and its people
“Might be the single best examination of British politics, society and strategy in these four years that has ever been written.” —The Wall Street Journal
Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict’s first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles pressing questions such as whether the war could have been avoided, how it could have been lost, how well the British lived up to their own values, and ultimately, what difference the war made to…
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October 26, 2021ALAN ALLPORT is a British-born historian, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, who specializes in the British role in the Second World War. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently the Dr. Walter Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the author of Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938–1941, which won the Historical Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Crown Award; Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War (2010), winner of the Longman–History Today Book of the Year award; and Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939–1945 (2015). He lives in Syracuse,…
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