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    Alan Allport

    ALAN ALLPORT, a British-born historian, is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society who specializes in the British role in World War II. 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 Prize; and Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939–1945 (2015). He lives in Syracuse, New York.
    Britain at Bay
    Britain at Bay
    The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941
    Alan Allport
    9781101974698
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Oct 26, 2021
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB

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    Britain at Bay
    Britain at Bay
    The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941
    Alan Allport
    9781101974698
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Oct 26, 2021
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB

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