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Alan Allport is a Professor of modern British history at Syracuse University. He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. His book Demobbed: Coming Home after the Second World War was published by Yale in 2009 and won the 2010 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award. In 2015, his book Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 was published by Yale. He is currently working on a two volume history of Britain in the Second World War, the first volume of which, Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War 1938-1941, was published by Profile (UK) and Knopf (North America) in 2020.

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	Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941 4.40 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War 4.32 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Advance Britannia: How the Second World War Was Won, 1942-1945 4.54 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2025 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 4.44 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Alan Allport (Goodreads Author), Walter Cronkite (Foreword by) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Austria by Alan Allport (Goodreads Author), Manufactured by Chelsea House (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The British Industrial Revolution 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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