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Alan Allport

ALAN 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 LongmanHistory 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, New York.
Britain at Bay

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Britain at Bay

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