Advance Britannia: The Monumental Story of the Second World War: 1942-1945 by Alan Allport #joyce 'Magnificent' Sunday Times 'The best

'Magnificent' Sunday Times 'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on Sunday

a settler from Scotland

and any deviation from Moscow-dictated ideology is punished by disappearance

humane’ Guardian ‘Sings from the page’ Rachel Clarke

often ignoring their complex colonial heritage altogether

Advance Britannia: The Monumental Story of the Second World War: 1942-1945 by Alan Allport #joyce 'Magnificent' Sunday Times 'The best'There isn't a better history of the Second World War than this' David Edgerton By 1942, Churchill faced a vastly different war than the one he'd inherited from Neville Chamberlain. Britain was no longer alone; the Soviets were now an unlikely ally in the East, and Pearl Harbor had finally pushed America into action. Yet the scale of violence remained unchanged. On average, seven British men, women and children were killed every hour of the Second