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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.

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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 -- Dominic Sandbrook Allport has distilled a mass of wisdom, and gathered all manner of truths under one roof, with skill and judgement -- Max Hastings * Sunday Times * A deeply researched, well-written and perceptive book ... This is Second World War writing at its best -- Andrew Roberts

Praise for Alan Allport: 'Allport has distilled a mass of wisdom, and gathered all manner of truths under one roof, with skill and judgement.' - Max Hastings 'A deeply researched, well-written and perceptive book ... This is Second World War writing at its best, and there is as much here about culture and society as about tactics and strategy.' - Andrew Roberts '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.' - Dominic Sandbrook

Alan Allport has followed up Britannia at Bay with another tour de Force. Advance Britannia ranges widely from the battlefield to the home front, from the cabinet war rooms to factory floors. It is as complete and compelling a picture of Britain in the Second World War as one could hope to read. -- Phillips O'Brien, author * The Strategists * 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. -- David Edgerton 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 -- Dominic Sandbrook Allport has distilled a mass of wisdom, and gathered all manner of truths under one roof, with skill and judgement -- Max Hastings * Sunday Times * A deeply researched, well-written and perceptive book ... This is Second World War writing at its best -- Andrew Roberts

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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 - 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.

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