Advance Britannia The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945

Alan Allport, Ric Jerrom

eAudio - 2026

The author of Britain at Bay—which The Wall Street Journal said may be “the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written”—picks up his sweeping social history in 1942, when what was once a regional war has become an intricate, globe-spanning conflict, with profound consequences for the British Empire and for a British people already exhausted after more than two years of fighting."[An] elegant and unsparing history of London’s role in World War II. . . . Overturns one piece of conventional wisdom after another." —The New York Times Book Review“The Japanese, gone berserk, have struck in the Pacific, joined up with the Axis, declared war on us,” one... British soldier wrote in his diary. “So the Yanks are now our comrades in arms, and the whole world’s ablaze.”By 1942, Churchill found himself facing... more