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Alan Allport

Biography

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 an associate professor of history in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the author of DEMOBBED: Coming Home After the Second World War (2010), which won the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award, and BROWNED OFF AND BLOODY-MINDED: The British Soldier Goes to War, 1939-1945 (2015). He has also written for several publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Times (London), The Literary Review and the London Review of Books. He lives in Syracuse, New York.

Alan Allport

Books by Alan Allport

Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941
by Alan Allport - History, Nonfiction

Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the first crucial years of World War II, Alan Allport tackles pressing questions such as whether the war could have been avoided, how it could have been lost, how well the British lived up to their own values, and ultimately, what difference the war made to the fate of the nation. In answering these questions, he reexamines our assumptions and paints a vivid portrait of the ways in which the Second World War transformed British culture and society. BRITAIN AT BAY gives us a fresh look at the opening years of the war, and illuminates the integral moments that, for better or for worse, made Britain what it is today.