Advance Britannia

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ISBN: 9781781257838

How the Second World War Was Won, 1942-1945

Alan Allport

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01 February 2026

History; Military history

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.

By: Alan Allport
Imprint: Profile
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 60mm
Weight: 966g
ISBN: 9781781257838
ISBN 10: 1781257833
Pages: 656
Publication Date: 01 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.

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

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