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Advance Britannia: How the Second World War Was Won, 1942-1945 de Alan Allport

Advance Britannia: How the Second World War Was Won, 1942-1945

Autor Alan Allport
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2026
'There isn't a better history of the Second World War than this' David EdgertonBy 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.
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ISBN-13: 9781781257845
ISBN-10: 1781257841
Pagini: 656
Ilustrații: Y – plates + integrated
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Alan Allport is the Dr Walter Montgomery and Marian Gruber Professor of History at Syracuse University. He is the author of three previous volumes of history, Browned Off and Bloody-Minded, Demobbed and Britain at Bay.

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Gripping ... Allport captures this extraordinary drama in a book that is concerned with grand strategy as much as it is individual lives
There is no silly sensationalism in this book, merely sound storytelling and measured judgments ... Admirably provocative
As complete and compelling a picture of Britain in the Second World War as one could hope to read
Allport succeeds in making stories that many of us thought we were familiar with feel fresh, urgent and timely. He has the true storyteller's gift of using a telling detail to make a story many of us thought we knew feel suspenseful. He reminds us that at the time the outcome was far from certain. This is a must read for anyone who is interested in what really happened in World War 2.
A triumph ... deftly weaving together a wealth of sources, Advance Britannia is the story of imperial, wartime Britain, and how the victories and disasters of those years shaped the post-war world. A 'total history' of Britain's 'total war'
This book describes the four years during which the second world war was won and, though this was not always obvious at the time, that the British empire was lost. Allport's great achievement is to capture this extraordinary global upheaval without losing sight of the poignant human dramas that were intertwined with it
Allport has done it again - a highly readable, analytically provocative and original interpretation of Britain's experience of war. For many years to come, Advance Britannia will be an authoritative account and explanation of these pivotal years of the war
There isn't a better history of the Second World War than this remarkably fresh account. It is a history liberated from the pious sentimentalities of both left and right, a story not of a nation but an empire at war, partly with itself. In prose which zings along it authoritatively despatches one myth after another, comes to thoughtful and clear judgements on people and events, and surprises the reader on every page. It is an extraordinary achievement, a book which deserves to be read by all who pretend to know British history.
Praise for Alan Allport: 'Allport's wonderfully insightful study asks us to rethink the conventional chronology It is not only refreshingly free of jargon but remarkably moving. If all academic history was written this way, popular historians would be out of a job
Allport has distilled a mass of wisdom, and gathered all manner of truths under one roof, with skill and judgement
A deeply researched, well-written and perceptive book ... This is Second World War writing at its best