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

Alan Allport

Nov 2025 · Profile Audio · Narrated by Ric Jerrom

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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.

About the author

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 Of 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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