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Hello, everyone and welcome to another history of the Second World War interview.

This time I'm joined once again by Alan Allport, this time to talk about his new book,

Advance Britannia, how the Second World War was won, 1942 to 1945, which is a sequel to his first book that he talked about on the podcast some time ago.

The book is out November 6th and it is available for pre-order right now.

Or if you're listening to this in the future, go buy a copy because it's probably on a shelf somewhere. Alan,

thank you for joining us here again today. Oh, you're very welcome. So this is the second

book in a two-book series. So sort of where does this volume kind of take up the story?

What's kind of the state of the war on page one of this book?

So any history like this, obviously, the division point is going to be a little bit arbitrary.

The book, Brittena Bay, the first volume of the series, ended after about two years of the war.

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