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name: Alan Allport
about: Alan Allport is a Professor of modern British history at Syracuse University. He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. His book Demobbed: Coming Home after the Second World War was published by Yale in 2009 and won the 2010 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award. In 2015, his book Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 was published by Yale. He is currently working on a two volume history of Britain in the Second World War, the first volume of which, Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War 1938-1941, was published by Profile (UK) and Knopf (North America) in 2020.