Alan Allport (born 1970) is a British

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whose work looks at the relationship between war and society during the period of the two world wars. He was born in Whiston,

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and moved to the United States in 1994. Allport received a

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in history from the

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in 2007 and currently teaches at

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Books

His first book ''Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War'', a study of the post-1945 military

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experience in Britain, was published by

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in 2009 and won the 2010 Longman-''History Today'' Book of the Year Award. His second book, ''Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier goes to War 1939-1945'' was published, also by Yale, in 2015. In 2020 he completed the first in a two-part history of Britain in the Second World War, '' Britain at Bay 1938-1941 '', which was published by Profile Books in the UK and

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in North America.

References

External links

Official website
Living people British historians 1970 births University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni British expatriates in the United States Syracuse University faculty {{UK-historian-stub