Alan Allport

A sweeping, groundbreaking epic that combines military with social history, to illuminate the ways in which Great Britain and its people were permanently transformed by the Second World War. Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict, Alan Allport seeks to answer questions such as: Could the war have been avoided? Could it have been lost? Were the strategic decisions the rights ones? How well did the British organize and fight? How well did the British live up to their own values? What difference did the war make in the end to the fate of the nation? In answering these and other essential questions he focuses--unlike many historians--on the human contingencies of the war, looking directly at the roles of individuals and the outcomes determined by luck or chance. Moreover, he looks intimately at the changes in wartime and postwar British society and culture. Whether discussing the mixing of classes during the war or the Labour Party movement, he shows us in great detail the effects of the war, again not only on an institutional, but on an individual level as well. For better or worse, much of Britain today is ultimately the product of the experiences of 1939-1941.

The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941

Britain at Bay

1938-1941

Britain at Bay : The Epic Story of the Second World War

"Drawing on their personal letters and diaries, on newspapers, reports, novels and films, Allan Allport's enthralling and affecting account illuminates the darker side of the homecoming experiences of ex-servicemen, their families and society at large."--BOOK JACKET.

Coming Home After the Second World War

Demobbed

Facts On File, Incorporated

Samuel Willard Crompton

Lisa Roberts

Zoran Pavlovic

Jeffrey A Gritzner

Richard A Crooker

Terry Jordan-Bychkov

Carol Ann Gillespie

Mandy Lineback-Gritzner

Jason Gritzner

Douglas A Phillips

Harry Greenbaum

Kristi L Desaulniers

Gary T Whiteford

Roger Dendinger

Joseph Hobbs

Stephen C Jett

William R Horne

Joseph R

Esther D Oppong

Roger Sandness

Professor Charles F Gritzner

Masoud Kheirbadi

Angelia L Mance, (Ra

Edward P Hogan

Dr Erin Hogan Fouberg

James Marran

Christopher Salter

Yvonne Gritzner

Tammy Mildenstein

Samuel Cord Stiers

Jose Javier Lopez

William A Dando

Vernon Domingo

Catherine W Cooper

The information-packed volumes in this series provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture. Abundant full-color illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery, and maps reflect current political boundaries. Written by the most experienced professors teaching world regional geography, this series meets social studies and geography curriculum standards.

Modern World Nations Set, 55-Volumes

What happened when millions of British servicemen were “demobbed”—demobilized—after World War II? Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded with ambivalence, regrets, and fears. Returning soldiers faced both practical and psychological problems, from reasserting their place in the family home to rejoining a much-altered labor force. Civilians worried that their homecoming heroes had been barbarized by their experiences and would bring crime and violence back from the battlefield. Drawing on personal letters and diaries, newspapers, reports, novels, and films, Alan Allport illuminates the darker side of the homecoming experience for ex-servicemen, their families, and society at large—a gripping story that’s in danger of being lost to national memory.

For a decade, Gordon Brown was British Prime Minister Tony Blairs right-hand man--the Iron Chancellor who piloted the British economy through years of growth and prosperity. But behind the scenes, a bitter power struggle between the two men was rocking the foundations of the governing Labour Party. In 2007, Blair resigned, and Brown, at last, had his chance at the top job. In taking over as the Queens First Minister, however, he had to deal with the mixed legacy left by his former boss, including Blairs controversial support for U.S. President George W. Bushs war in Iraq. "Gordon Brown" examines his journey from a remote Scottish parsonage to 10 Downing Street, and looks at the starkly different way Brown approaches politics compared to his more charismatic predecessor.

Gordon Brown

More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport’s rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.

The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945

Browned Off and Bloody-Minded

Paul Ruschmann

Martha Bridegam

Angela Valdez

Sara Faherty

David L Hudson, Jr

Kevin Hile

Issues in Contemporary American Society

Point/Counterpoint

Explores key issues related to U.S. immigration, such as illegal immigration and whether or not English should be the nation's official language.

Immigration Policy

Discusses the 1st Amendment right to free speech, with particular emphasis on defining and limiting dangerous speech, obscene expression, and the freedom of the press.

Freedom of Speech

Alan Allport

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