Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945 by Alan Allport Chris Van Dusen One of The New Yorker's

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Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945 by Alan Allport Chris Van Dusen One of The New Yorker'sThe author of Britain at Baywhich 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 writtenpicks 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]