Alan Allport

• 2024 Spring
  • HST 370 American Military History
  • HST 112 Modern Europe: Napoleon to the Present
  • HST 300 Selected Topics - WWII in Europe
  • HST 369 The World at War: 1914-1918, 1939-1945
• 2023 Fall
  • HST 370 American Military History
  • HST 111 Early Modern Europe, 1350-1815
  • HST 401 Senior Seminar - What If Counterfactual History
• 2023 Spring
  • HST 112 Modern Europe: Napoleon to the Present
• 2022 Fall
  • HST 370 American Military History
  • HST 111 Early Modern Europe, 1350-1815
  • HST 300 Selected Topics - WWII in Europe
• 2022 Spring
  • HST 112 Modern Europe: Napoleon to the Present

Alan Allport specializes in the history of Britain in the period of the two world wars. His most recent book, "Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War 1938-1941" was published by Knopf (North America) and Profile (UK) in 2020. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Professor Paul Kennedy of Yale University said that "Britain at Bay ... might be the single best examination of British politics, society and strategy in these four years that has ever been written." It was a Sunday Times (London) history book of the year and a finalist for the 2020 RUSI Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History.

Professor Allport's previous two books are "Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945" which was published by Yale University Press in 2015 and "Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War," published by Yale in 2009, which won the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award. He is currently writing a sequel to Britain at Bay provisionally titled "Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War 1942-1945."  Professor Allport is interested in hearing from any potential graduate students interested in studying 20^th century Britain and the history of the two world wars.

• Book Chapters
  • Allport, A., "Johnny Eyetie and the Teds: British Soldiers’ Attitudes towards their Italian and German Enemies in the Second World War." In People, Nations and Traditions in a Comparative Frame: Thinking about the Past with Jonathan Steinberg. Coffmann, D. (ed.) Anthem Press, 2021.
  • Allport, A., "'Like Getting into a Witch’s Oven’: The Experience of Tank Combat in World War I." In Personal Perspectives: World War I. Dowling, T. (ed.) ABC-CLIO, 2005.
  • Allport, A., "The Experience of Allied Aircrews in Europe." In Personal Perspectives: World War II. Dowling, T. (ed.) ABC-CLIO, 2005.
  • Allport, A., "Mrs. Thatcher’s Liberties." In The Political Legacy of Margaret Thatcher. Pugliese, S. (ed.) Politico’s, 2003.
• Book Reviews
  • Allport, A., "Review of “Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII” by Mary Louise Roberts." In War in History. , 2023.
  • Allport, A., "Review of “The Munich Crisis, Politics and the People: International, Transnational and Comparative Perspectives” by Julie V. Gottlieb, Daniel Hucker, and Richard Toye, eds.." In Journal of British Studies. , 2023.
  • Allport, A., ""Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War" by Tobias Kelly." In Literary Review. , 2022.
  • Allport, A., ""George V: Never a Dull Moment" by Jane Ridley." In The Washington Post. , 2022.
  • Allport, A., ""The Battle of London 1939-1945" by Jerry White." In Literary Review. , 2021.
  • Allport, A., ""The Man Who Took the Rap: Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the Fall of Singapore" by Peter Dye." In Journal of Modern History. , 2020.
  • Allport, A., ""The Veterans' Tale: British Military Memoirs of the Second World War" by Frances Houghton." In Journal of Military History. , 2020.
  • Allport, A., ""Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947" by Daniel Todman." In The Wall Street Journal. , 2020.
• Monographs
  • Allport, A., Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War 1938-1941. London: Profile Books; New York: Knopf, 2020.
  • Allport, A., Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945. Yale University Press, 2015.
  • Allport, A., Demobbed: Coming Home after the Second World War. Yale University Press, 2009.

US Army Heritage and Education Center, "Britain at Bay" (August 17, 2022)

The Centre for the History of War, Media, and Society Annual Lecture, "Battles of Britain: Then and Now" (October 14, 2021)

Second World War Research Group Roundtable, "Second World War Britain, New Texts/New Themes" (September 8, 2021)

North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, "We Are the Same People we were 60 Years Ago’: Reflections on the 1940-41 Blitz and Contemporary Terrorism" (November 8, 2020)

Royal Military College of Canada annual conference, "Demobilization of the British Armed Services after the Two World Wars" (November 9, 2018)

Crown Prize for Nonfiction, 2021, Historical Writers Association (2021 - 2021)

Fellow, Royal Historical Society, Royal Historical Society (2013)

Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award, 2010, History Today magazine (2010 - 2010)