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. Dr. Allport is currently working on a social history of the British Army from 1939 to 1945, which will also be published by Yale. Author Blog By Alan Allport: The British Demobilisation Experience, June 1945 – June 1946www.alanallport.net